As President Muhammadu Buhari is set to meet with his United States (US) counterpart, Donald Trump on Monday the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has pointed to acts of human rights abuse under this administration.
The PDP urged the US president to pay attention to a recent report by US Department of State on constitutional and human rights violation in Nigeria, under President Buhari.
The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, declared this at a press conference in Abuja, yesterday.
Also, the party’s National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, in a statement by his media adviser, Ike Abonyi said Nigeria is now a police state under the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Ologbondiyan said, “We therefore urge President Donald Trump to stand up for democracy and take President Buhari to task on constitutional and human rights violations in Nigeria under his watch,” .
He noted at the press conference that President Buhari’s administration has wrecked the nation’s democratic order, eroded constitutionally guaranteed rights of citizens while foisting a siege mentality on the people.
“Nigeria is facing a perilous time; our constitution has been technically suspended; we have now become a police state; governance has reverted to the nightmares of the 1984 era, when draconian leaders held sway and forcefully held our people under the grips of military Decree 2.
“Currently, there is a total collapse of respect for constitutionally guaranteed personal freedom; there is no regard for natural course of justice, life in Nigeria is gradually returning to the state of nature and there is fear everywhere.
“Today, Nigerians are being hounded, arrested and directly detained on ‘order from above’, without warrant; citizens are locked up in dehumanising detention centres without access to medical care and legal assistance, just for holding political opinions that run contrary to the views of those in power at the centre.
