- Obasanjo’s Coalition for Nigeria Movement has bashed the Buhari-led federal govt for imposing a travel ban on 50 Nigerians
- The CNM opined that what Executive Order 6 portends is a significant step towards the creation of a police state
- It further claimed that Buhari was provoked into panic mode by the emergence of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidate of the PDP
The federal government has been lambasted by the Olusegun Obasanjo-led Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM), for imposing a travel ban on 50 politically-exposed persons.
The group made its position known in a statement released by its director of strategic communications, Akin Osuntokun, on Sunday, October 14, Punch reports.
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NAIJ.com gathers that the CNM described the Executive Order 6 (EO6) as an attempt to muzzle the opposition.
It said the order was in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s speech at the Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association, where he said rule of law must be subject to national interest.
According to the group, Buhari personalised the nations’ security architecture in order to use security agencies to achieve a hidden agenda.
The statement read in part: “Recall that journalists were jailed on account of a similar decree that criminalised any reporting that embarrassed his government. Against this background, what the Executive Order 6 portends is a significant step towards the creation of a police state.
“It is also against this background that the personalisation of the national security architecture makes sense. Otherwise there would have been no need to continue to reinforce the lopsided and parochial subversion and subordination of the security agencies to a personality cult agenda, at every available opportunity.
“This has been the underlying agenda of Buhari; momentarily provoked into a panic mode by the emergence of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidate of the PDP and the accelerating national consensus against his re-election.”
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Meanwhile, NAIJ.com previously reported that President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive for the full execution of Executive Order 6 (EO6), which bans 50 prominent Nigerians from travelling abroad and also seeks to confiscate their assets currently under investigation, was condemned by human rights activist and constitutional lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN).
The legal luminary, reacting to the development, described the directive as an arbitrary and obnoxious act capable of undermining the fundamental rights of the affected persons.
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Source: Naija.ng