The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Osun state chapter, yesterday warned President Mohammadu Buhari against act capable of plunging the country in to civil war, saying tampering with the constitutionally-guaranteed immunity of governors would spell doom for the country.
The party, in a statement issued in Osogbo by its Director of Research, Publicity and Strategy, Prince Diran Odeyemi, urged the President to immediately drop plans to impose travel ban on Governors of Ekiti and Rivers, Nyesom Wike and Ayo Fayose, saying there was nothing done to Buhari by the duo that Rauf Aregbesola of Osun did not do to Goodluck Jonathan while in office.
Odeyemi said the same Section 308 of the constitution that gives the President immunity also provides the governors with same leverage, adding that, instead of tinkering with the idea of travel ban on the governors, if any security infraction is noticed, the President should have approached the court.
Recalling how the PDP Obasanjo-led Federal Government approached the court when the administration of Senator Bola Tinubu created local government areas in Lagos state, Odeyemi opined that adding the salt of travel ban on governors with immunity same as the president, to the injury of constant flouting of court orders by the Buhari administration in the last one, is not portraying the president as a true democrat.
The statement reads: "Since the news broke of plans by Buhari to ban our governors Ayo Fayose and Nyesom Wike from travelling using Department of State Security, DSS, images of events of the past have kept on reappearing.
"Allusions have been made to how His Imperial Majesty, Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuade and his friend, Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero were slammed with travel ban by Gen Buhari in 1984. Also reference has been made to how President Sheu Shagari was kept under house arrest and his vice, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, locked up.
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