Delta PDP chieftain slams Buhari over Executive Order 6

THE recent Executive Order Six signed by President Muhammadu Buhari has been described as an order of executive rascality, as the president has no such power to confiscate citizens’ property without due process.

A chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Sunny Onuesoke, while reacting to the Executive Order No. 6, said the president erred in the signing, as this could only be done in a situation of chaos and war, which is not the case with this order.

“Executive Orders are duly made during the state of chaos, inter-country war, or could be for internal crises, without consulting the National Assembly, because of the processes of lawmaking, which follows different stages of readings,” he averred.

Chief Onuesoke pointed out that because of such urgent and security situation, the president is allowed to proclaim an executive order, but not an order against personal property of Nigerians, while there are institutions established to investigate such wealth and properties.

“The President has the power to issue a presidential order, not an order against peoples property when there are the law courts, the constitution is there to take care of illegally gotten wealth, and agencies and institutions that handle such.

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“The president has no right to sign an executive order to freeze people’s account, it’s an aberration, internationally, nationally, constitutionally, and it’s against the charter of the United Nations on human rights,” he enthused.

The PDP chieftain called on Nigerians to resist the order, as it’s against their right to acquire properties, as enshrined in the Nigerian constitution.

Meanwhile, the social crusader has described the just concluded election in Ekiti State as a far cry from what Nigerians expected from the Independent National Election Commission (INEC) and the Federal Government, as the state was locked up and invaded with federal might to intimidate the opposition and the people of the state.

He condemned the use of federal might by the federal government to win the election, by all means, using state apparatus, causing fear and intimidation in the minds of the people of Ekiti.

He stressed that the election was won by the APC candidate not by the votes of the people, but by the assistance of the election umpire.