IMMEDIATE past National Care Taker Committee Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi has described the assault on the Principal Officers of the National Assembly in the early hours of Tuesday as a setback to our developing democracy. This was contained in a statement issued to the TribuneOnline on Tuesday and signed by his spokesman, Mukhtar Zubairu Sirajo. ‘It is a clear breach of one of the fundamental tenets of Presidential democracy, which provides for separation of powers. It also constitutes a serious abuse of the fundamental human rights of the targeted individuals, both the presiding officers and the defectors respectively, because the right to associate is inalienable. ‘Senator Makarfi appeals to Nigerians to remain peaceful but vigilant and do everything within the law to stand up against forces bent on reversing our democracy gains.

Source: Nigerian Tribune July 24, 2018 18:29 UTC