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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says President Muhammadu is persecuting Sambo Dasuki, former national security adviser (NSA), out of suspicion that he is nursing a 2019 presidential ambition.
The party said Dasuki, who is undergoing trial for alleged fraud, has vast political and security network, hence the president's bid to stop his 'suspected' ambition.
It "sympathised" with "Buhari and leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) over their inability to accept, with equanimity, constructive criticisms of their administration".
"It is unfortunate that the APC and its leaders, who gleefully and unjustifiably poured invective on former President Goodluck Jonathan in the guise of playing the role of an opposition party, would now not want to condone criticisms," PDP said in a statement issued by Olisa Metuh, its spokesman.
"Unlike the APC that denigrated the office and person of former President Jonathan by wrongly depicting him as 'clueless and incompetent', the PDP remains the most decent, mature and constructive opposition party in our democracy and we have evidenced great respect for the person and exalted office of President Muhammadu Buhari.
"During the Goodluck Jonathan presidency, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, while in the saddle as interim Deputy National Secretary of the APC, in a post on his twitter page, described President Jonathan as 'lazy, docile, incompetent, clueless, hopeless and useless leader.' Other APC leaders made raining abuses on Jonathan a past time.
"The PDP is a very responsible opposition party; our leaders are mature; and we have demonstrated so in our critique of the President's responses during the maiden Presidential Media Chat. We have reviewed President Buhari's performance and concluded that it was uninspiring.
"The entire world listened to President Buhari during the chat and went away with different impressions. We did and came up with the theme of our initial reaction that portrayed him very appropriately as a tyrant. And for purpose of clarity, a tyrant is a ruler who has complete power over a country and who uses the power in a cruel and unfair way, which was why we recommended the suspension of the operation of the constitution so he can rule for the next four years as a maximum ruler.
"In its reaction, his party National Chairman, John Oyegun magisterially and dictatorially warned that 'we (APC) may not condone such anymore.' Our position in the PDP is that we are in trouble as a nation. All we hear from the APC regarding our freedom is 'we won't tolerate', 'we won't condone.' Are these words used by democrats or tyrants?
"So, the PDP too is being warned and coerced on what to say as opposition party. The PDP must be commended for the civil, responsible, mature, issue-based opposition it has played. The nation knows how the APC rained insults on former President Jonathan and that the PDP, during that time, never used words like 'it would not condone…'
"Some have even criticised the PDP style of opposition as being too civil considering the tyranny we are facing. That is why Chief John Oyegun could term a dictionary word-'tyrant'- as insulting. Nigerians do not need the PDP or anyone else to make them decide if President Buhari's APC government fits the definition of a tyrant.
"The real trait of the President was unraveled during the media chat. He has repeatedly shown his scorn for the Legislature, an independent arm of government while sanctioning security agencies' disrespect for court orders and the impunity of continuous incarceration of people who have been granted bails by the courts.
"Also from his responses, the President has even pronounced a guilty verdict on Col Sambo Dasuki and Nnamdi Kanu of Radio Biafra even before the hearings by the courts. Sadly, even the international community has noted this brazen scorn and disdain for the independence of the judiciary.
"Furthermore, how do we describe a president ....
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