By Onome Oghenetega
Following Wednesday’s PUNCH Newspapers hard stand on the growing human rights abuses in Nigeria, another media house, The Signal has joined to condemned and vowed to henceforth address President Muhammadu Buhari as a dictator.
The medium frowned at what it described as continued clampdown on freedom of expression and outright disregard for rule of law by the Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) government.
The PUNCH Newspapers had on Wednesday in its editorial vowed to address President Buhari with its military rank of a ‘Major General’ over his administration’s human right abuses and disobedience of court order.
The PUNCH said Buhari’s democratic government is reminiscence of his military regime which had no regard for rule of law.
But The Signal, an online medium, said it would only relax the prefix of a dictator for President Buhari only when he releases and drop treason charges against the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Mr Omoyele Sowore, was granted bail and rearrested by operatives of State Security Service (SSS).
According to the medium, “NOTICE | As a show of protest for the consistent disregard for the rule of law and clampdown on freedom of expression in #Nigeria, we shall henceforth address President Muhammadu @MBuhari with the prefix: ‘Dictator’ in all our publications.
“The ‘Dictator’ prefix on Muhammadu @MBuhari will be relaxed by this media house only after court orders are obeyed and detained prisoners of conscience like @YeleSowore are freed from detention and the framed up charges of treason against them dropped.”
Below is The Signal tweets:
