Impose Visa Ban On Buhari And Others – PDP To EU Members

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on European countries to impose a visa ban on President Muhammadu Buhari.

Gatekeepers News reports that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and other International communities to impose a visa ban on President Muhammadu Buhari and his cabinet for suspending Twitter in Nigeria.

The opposition party in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the suspension of the microblogging platform is a clear violation of Article 19 of the UN International Charter on Human Rights and is “stifling free speech in Nigeria.”

PDP added that the suspension also violates section 39 of the nation’s 1999 Constitution (as amended), which guaranteed freedom of expression to all Nigerians.

The opposition also urged the world bodies to sanction the “Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami as well as certain leaders of the APC for their individual ignoble roles in the ban imposed on Twitter in addition to associated harassments and threats to Nigerians.”

The PDP enjoined the countries to bar President Buhari, Lai Mohammed, Abubakar Malami, and their family members from entering their territories for any private purposes whatsoever.

The statement read further,
“For the avoidance of doubt, Article 19 of the UN Charter on Human Rights provides that “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinion without interference and to seek, receive and impact information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”

“In the same vein, section 39 (1) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) provides that “every person shall be entitled to freedom of expression, including the freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart ideas and information without interference.”

The party, therefore, submitted that “the trio of President Buhari, Lai Mohammed, and Abubakar Malami and their agents cannot continue to enjoy diplomatic privileges and rights extended by virtue of their offices in Nigeria, while at the same time blatantly flouting the UN Charter, which Nigeria is a signatory to, as well as the 1999 Constitution (as amended) upon which provisions they hold office. ”

PDP also called “the international community to hold the trio of President Buhari, Lai Mohammed, and Malami responsible for the escalated abuse of human rights, constitutional violations as well as the situations that embolden terrorists, bandits, kidnappers and vandals” in the country.

The opposition party revealed that it has started the “compilation of list of APC leaders, involved in infringing on Nigerians for onward transmission to UN and other world bodies for sanctions.”