Buhari’s Administration Intimidating Judiciary, Galadima Alleges

The spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Presidential
Campaign Council, Buba Galadima, has accused President Muhammadu
Buhari’s administration of muzzling the judiciary.

Galadima, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics
Today, said there were some reported cases of those he described as
“friends of this government” who were trying to manipulate cases
before the court.

Speaking on the rule of law, he said: “This government is
intimidating the judiciary. You have heard in the social and print
media of certain friends of this government visiting judges, trying
to mold their opinion on the cases before them,” he said.

Galadima, who also spoke on the Electoral Amendment Bill,
criticised President Buhari for failing to append his signature
despite being passed by the National Assembly weeks to the general
election.

He alleged that the refusal to append his signature was a
deliberate ploy by the presidency to rig the poll, a situation
which Galadima said led to the face-off between the executive and
the legislature.

According to him, election observers, the United States, Europe,
and Commonwealth, among others knew who won the recently concluded
presidential election.

When asked for the way forward, the PDP spokesman said he wanted
a separation of powers among the three tiers of government.

He believed that a situation whereby the President has absolute
control over the nation’s legislative and judicial arm of
government portrayed a dangerous signal for democracy.

“We have the head of a government who believes that he will
first accuse you and it will be your duty to prove yourself
innocent.

“There is no place, no country in the world where you are
accused and you prove yourself innocent. The President has
consistently stood on this promise and now that he has the complete
judiciary under his armpit and the National Assembly inside the
pocket, we Nigerians are in trouble,” he
said.

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