A legal practitioner, Festus Ogun has condemned a section of the Democracy Day speech President Bola Tinubu delivered on Monday. 'It has become imperative
“It has become imperative to state here that the unnecessary illegal orders used to truncate or abridge democracy will no longer be tolerated,” Tinubu said in his nationwide broadcast.
Ogun believes the president’s “reckless threat to the judiciary is deliberately targeted at the eminent justices of the Presidential Election Tribunal”. Tinubu’s statement was “an affront in a democracy which amounts to a subtle attack on the tenets of separation of powers as enshrined under Sections 4, 5 and 6 of the 1999 Constitution”, he said.
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