Garba Shehu - Nigeria President will not take an action which violate the constitution

According to new statement which emerge from the Presidency on Sunday night, claims that the arrest of some judges by operatives of the Department of State Services was not a Judiciary attack, in the statement released by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity Mallam Garba Shehu, it says Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari will not take an action which violate the constitution

The statement reads

“President Buhari remains a committed democrat, in words and in his actions, and will not take any action in violation of the constitution

“The recent surgical operation against some judicial officers is specifically targeted at corruption and not at the judiciary as an institution.

“In a robust democracy such as ours, there is bound to be a plurality of opinions on any given issue, but there is a convergence of views that the country has a corruption problem that needs to be corrected.

“But reports by a section of the media are giving us cause for concern.

“In undertaking the task of reporting, the media should be careful about the fault lines they open. It is wrong to present this incident as a confrontation between the executive and judicial arms of government.

“The Presidency has received assurances from the DSS that all due processes of the law, including the possession of search and arrest warrants were obtained before the searches.

“To suggest that the government is acting outside the law in a dictatorial manner is to breach the interest of the state.”

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