The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari of exhibiting trappings of despotism.
The party also alleged that the current travails by the president of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki with the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) was orchestrated by the presidency in its quest to annex the National Assembly.
PDP in a statement on Saturday by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, recalled that Presidency had vowed not to recognise the current Senate leadership, and said such was a total disdain to the independence of the legislature and the principle of separation of powers.
“Ordinarily, the intra-party squabbles within the APC, regarding leadership positions in the Senate is not necessarily our concern.
“Also, we are not interested in whether Senate President Bukola Saraki ran for the APC Presidential ticket against President Muhammadu Buhari; or whether he ran for the Senate Presidency against the advice of the President and his party.
“Our concerns here are the prevailing executive intolerance, the undermining of the institution of the National Assembly and the overall threat to the survival of our democracy,” the statement said.
However, APC in its reaction through a statement by Lai Mohammed, its National Publicity Secretary said that the “Saturday’s Press Statement by the PDP is nothing but a thinly-veiled frontal assault on the relentless efforts of the Buhari Administration’s to clean the Augean Stable of the last PDP Federal Government.”
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