Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, has warned that there should be no dragging the Executive Executive into the affairs of Legislature, to the extent that he said even if National Assembly members want to go into the chamber to break one another’s heads, they should be allowed to do so on their own.
Ojudu, who spoke on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Wednesday, said brigandry can no never again be tolerated in the Nigerian national life.
He also expressed confidence in President Muhammadu Buhari’s sense of justice, insisting that Buhari would also have sacked the former Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Lawal Daura, had he been in the country.
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo had, on Tuesday, ordered the immediate sack of Daura, following an invasion of the National Assembly by DSS officials who prevented the entry of lawmakers, staff and journalists into the premises.
Speaking further, the journalism figure who defeated Ayodele Fayose to pick the Ekiti Central senatorial seat at the 7th Assembly in 2011 said, “The executive should not be brought into their [National Assembly] crisis. If the National Assembly members want to go into the chambers and break one other’s heads, let them do it on their own. Let that be a National Assembly matter.”
On the speculations that Buhari may reverse Daura’s sack when he returns to the country next week, Ojudu said: “Many of you don’t seem to know President Buhari at all. He is not that kind of person.
“He is a very just and frank person. If he had been around, he probably wouldn’t have also allowed this kind of thing to happen without some kind of sanction. This has been the limit of it.”
