The Punch newspaper has said it would now include the prefix Major General in addition to President Muhammadu Buhari in protest of the disregard of the rule of law.
The newspaper said in an editorial on Wednesday entitled ‘Buhari’s lawlessness: Our stand’ that Buhari’s administration would now be referred to as a regime.
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This comes as part of outrage that followed the rearrest of the convener of RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore, last Friday by the Department of State Services (DSS) at the Federal High Court, Abuja.
”As a symbolic demonstration of our protest against autocracy and military-style repression, PUNCH (all our print newspapers, The PUNCH, Saturday PUNCH, Sunday PUNCH, PUNCH Sports Extra, and digital platforms, most especially Punchng.com) will henceforth prefix Buhari’s name with his rank as a military dictator in the 80s, Major General, and refer to his administration as a regime, until they purge themselves of their insufferable contempt for the rule of law,” it said.
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The Punch also attacked the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, for “vigorously pressing for anti-hate speech laws to restrict the social media.”
It also criticised the police and some governors who are in the habit of “deploying security agents and perverting the law to punish critics and journalists.”
