Carol Ajie, a constitutional lawyer and founder of
Change.org, has appealed to President Barrack Obama
of the United States, over President Muhammadu
Buhari's "disobedience of court orders."
Petition
President Buhari had during the conversation with
Nigerian journalists
accepted that the former National Security Adviser,
Sambo Dasuki and the leader of Indigenous People of
Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu were being held against court
orders because they could run away.
Dasuki is being prosecuted in connection to a
supposed misapplication of $2.1 billion meant for
purchase of arms to fight the deadly Boko Haram
insurgency.
Kanu, who lives in the UK together with other pro-
Biafrans call for the independence of territories that constituted the Biafran Republic, established in 1967.
So far, the petition has collected 743 signatures out of its 1,000 person target.
The petition reads in part: " On May 29th 2015, a
former Military Dictator, Muhammadu Buhari, sequel to
a contested election in March 2015 against a sitting
President in Nigeria, the first time in Africa, an
incumbent handed power peaceably, smoothly,
heroically to a political rival.
"Whereupon Mr Buhari then took the Oath of Allegiance
to protect the Constitution of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria 1999 and the President's Oath of office to
discharge his duties faithfully, in accordance with the
Constitution and the Laws of Nigeria.
"Within President Buhari's first year in office, too soon
after he took the revered Oaths, he and state agents
acting under his supervision, now demonstrate total
lack of respect for Court Orders and at his maiden
media chat on Wednesday 30th Dec., instant, Mr
President made puerile attempts to justify these
breaches, he said inter alia that some persons his
regime locked up in cells dehumanized against court
orders, Nnamdi Kanu had travelled without his
passports.
"But under the Immigration Act, the President or the
Minister may deport anyone who travels without a
valid travel document or detain for a period not
exceeding 7 days. In holding Mr. Kanu beyond the
required period they have infracted on the Immigration
Act, the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, the
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999
and subsisting court orders."
"With regard to issues of "self determination", the crux
of Nnamdi Kanu's campaign of the Independent People
of Biafra, IPOB, having communicated IPOB's intent to all and the United Nations as required by UN Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights ratified by Nigeria, that
people of any community or group may wish to
exercise the right of self-determination with a view to
pursuing their economic, social and cultural
development; aware that their dignity as human
persons had deteriorated and been consciously
degraded under the present dispensation, sadly
appearing power inebriate."
The lawyer asked Buhari to resign as President if he is
not ready to obey court orders or risk being impeached
from office.
However, the presidency denied to comment on the
petition.
An official said it would be improper for the presidency
to honour such a petition with an answer.
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