Buhari’s comment on rule on law: Soyinka explodes, tells Nigerians what will happen


Wale Odunsi

Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari for suggesting that national security is superior to the rule of law.
He said Nigerians should expect certain actions that will justify the president’s declaration.
Buhari made the comment at the opening ceremony of the Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Monday.
In a statement Thursday, titled ‘Buhari’s Pernicious Doctrine”, Soyinka said: “At his first coming, it was ‘I intend to tamper with Freedom of the Press,’ and Buhari did proceed to suit action to the words, sending two journalists – Irabor and Thompson – to prison as a reward for their professional integrity.
“Now, a vague, vaporous, but commodious concept dubbed “national interest” is being trotted out as alibi for flouting the decisions of the Nigerian judiciary. President Buhari has obviously given deep thought to his travails under a military dictatorship, and concluded that his incarceration was also in the ‘national interest.’
“We have cause to be thankful for the advance warning, since not all rulers actually make a declaration of intent, but simply proceed to degrade the authority of the law as part of the routine business of governance,” said Mr Soyinka.
“We have been there before. It should be of mere interest, not despondency, that this latest proclamation of dictatorial recidivism has also been made before an assembly of officers of the law, the Nigerian Bar Association. We expect a robust response from the NBA as part of its conclusions.”
Soyinka noted that there is no shortcut to democracy and that the history of law, even where uncodified, is as old as humanity.
“Numerous rulers have tried again and again to annul that institution,” he said.
“Sometimes, they appear to succeed, but in the end, they pay heavy forfeit. So does society.
“The rule of law, however, outlasts all subverters, however seemingly powerful. If the consequences for society in defence of the rule of law were not so costly, any new attempt would be merely banal and boring, hardly deserving of attention. We know, historically, where it will all end.”

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Like I always said..

Politicians are usually very ruthless during their second tenure because they have nothing to lose and no longer need your vote. Buhari as a tyrant takes ruthlessness to another height if gets a second tenure. He will...

- Be very ruthless with the media, many journalists will be either jailed or killed.

- He will clamp down on social media, and take away the only voice the people have to say the truth to power.

- Bye Bye to your freedom of Information and expression.

- State sponsored gestapo-styled assasinations will be the other of day. Buhari hates the judiciary and thinks the courts are useless. He believes in arbitrary arrest, detention and extrajudicial killing by the executioners in the executive.

- Nigerians will gnash their teeth in 2019 if buhari wins again.

The signs are clearer than sunlight.

Lalasticlala Good morning this evening.

Nigerians are already suffering. when the sai babarians were busy chanting "sai baba" little did they know it will certainly turn to "why baba". hunger is teaching bubu's kinsmen in daura a bitter lesson