Human Rights Group Condemns Buhari for Ban on AIT

Human Rights group, Center for Human Rights and Social Justice, CHRSJ, has condemned President-elect, General Mohammadu Buhari for banning African Independent Television, AIT, from covering his activities, saying such action smacks of some hidden agenda.

The group inn a statement signed by its Chairman, Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman said the President-elect is attempting to resuscitate the anti-democratic ethos in a democratic setting.

He said “Nigeria people, particularly, the men of fourth estate of realm should be extreme careful now with this present development from now. Buhari, the President-Elect so as to avoid being the first victim of Buhari’s government after inauguration in May 29th, 2015. Buhari should know that this is a democracy where there is no privacy for any political leader. When Mrs. Turai Yaradua, the wife of Late President Yaradua, declared that She has power on her husband, Nigeria people told him that her husband, was President of Nigeria people and they ought to know the where about of their President, which shows that no privacy for General Muhammadu Buhari in a democratic setting again until he finishes his term of office in 2019.”

The rights group however declared that General Buhari should be
tutored on how to conduct the act of governance in a democratic era,
believing that democracy was new in the President-Elect dictionary and strange to his nature because of his military dictatorship background, stressing that the Freedom of Press is one of the ground norms of entrenching democracy in the world.

Source: pointblanknews

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