Buhari's regime Is A Repeat Of Abacha's Era ---Gani Adams

The National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Otunba Gani Adams, said that the administration of president Muhammadu Buhari is a replica of former military dictator, General Sani Abacha's Era.Adams stated this while reacting to an interview question he granted to Daily Independent regarding to the freezing of the account of the Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose by the EFCC.

His words: "The issue of EFCC freezing Fayose’s account is another eyesore. This is a sitting governor with immunity as enshrined in the Nigerian constitution, section 308. We are not saying Fayose cannot be investigated.

A sitting governor can be investigated. His accounts can be monitored to see how transactions are being carried out. You can also be writing your reports about him, even without his knowledge. Once he has finished his trial and he no longer enjoys immunity, then you can commence his trial.

"You cannot systematically try somebody whom the constitution says has immunity on virtue of his position as governor. You cannot freeze the account of a sitting governor.

It is against the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria. By trying to circumvent the constitution of the land, youare setting a bad precedent for others to follow."If the president has no regards for the constitution of the land, what does he expect state governors to do?

The governors will borrow a leaf from that and even local government chairmen will toe the same path. That will be the beginning of anarchy in the country. When you detain someone and you said you will not release him over your dead body.

Even when the court has pronounced bail on that fellow, you prepare another charge just to perpetually detain him. It is just as if we are witnessing another Abacha government. So, Inasmuch as the president is willing to sanitise our country, he must believe in the rule of law.

"One shouldn’t be on haste to correct what is wrong; you do it on a gradual basis. What we are witnessing now is not different from what the military did during their reign.

This present government is replica of what happened when the militarywas in power till 1999."I was so surprised that some of our people that fought against military rule, that even went on exile are supporting what is happening now.

Look at someone like John Odigie- Oyegun; he was a prominent chieftain of NADECO. Now that he is the national chairman of APC he came out to say that he does not believe in true federalism, which was one of the mainagitations of NADECO then.

What has changed between then and now for Oyegun to come out and say ‘Restructuring Nigeria is not APC’s priority for now?’. Oyegun should realise that he is getting old.

He should be concerned about what posterity will say about him. He is not the only one; even some of our senators are saying toeing the same path because of party affiliation.

"There is a difference between party affairs and ideology. Look at someone like Shehu Sani, he is an APC Senator, yet he still follows his ideology. He is still very consistent with his beliefs.

Look at what Atiku (Abubakar) said on true federalism. In fact, he was very detailed than many of us that calls ourselves comrades.

He gave a detailed explanation on concept of restructuring and how it will work. So, for a president on his one year anniversary in office to come out and say that the outcome will be kept in the archives is worrisome.

"This is a document that 492 eminent Nigerians sat down to work on. Amongst them were three retired Judges of the Appeal Court, one or two retired Supreme Court Judges, lots of retired Federal High Court judges, 15 to 20 Senior Advocates ofNigeria, more than 50 professors, more than 25 permanent-secretaries, some of the retired service chiefs were also there.

We also have first class monarchs from the six geo-political zones, civil society groups and elder statesmen, including my humble self were there."Within the period of five months, we reached consensus on 99 percent issues at that conference. The only issue that almost caused crisis was the issue of resource control.
To solve that, we gave a blank cheque to President Jonathan to establish a technical committee that will advise the presidency on it. And to imaginethat this is a recommendation that President Buhari said will be kept in the archives. I believe the voice of the people is the voice of God.