The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has condemned the placement of 50 Nigerians on the watch-list and a restriction of their movements by the Federal Government.
The action of the government followed President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive to the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice to implement the Executive Order 6 in full force.
With the order, the affected persons would be restricted from leaving the county pending the determination of their cases.
But in its reaction, the PDP, in a statement made by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, said the order was an attack on the country’s democratic order and an overthrow of rights of citizenry as guaranteed by the 1999 constitution.
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He called on the international community to monitor the situation and “take note should any harm befall any opposition leader, key members of the business community and religious leaders across the country.”
The leading opposition party while calling on the international community to monitor the situation in the country, warned that the order was designed to clampdown on key person in the opposition or other persons holding different views from that of the government.
Said Ologbondiyan: “We hope this is not a ploy to harm certain eminent Nigerians on the claims of resisting travel restriction.
“The whole world can now see how fascism is fast taking over our democracy and judicial system and how the Buhari administration, by fiat, has directly ordered that citizens be secretly trailed.
“Their movements and financial transactions are restricted by government agencies, without recourse to due process of the law.”
