Tai Emeka Obasi, the media aide to Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has told the military to refrain from bullying as to the crisis rocking the outcome of the general election.
The Military drew Obasi’s admonition on the back of Thursday’s remark of Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Musa Danmadami, in respect of the conflict occasioned by the poll.
Danmadami weighed in on the brouhaha saying in short that the reported call for interim government is unconstitutional and the military would err on the side of the law.
To Obi’s subordinate, the military’s declaration is a subtle intimidation incapable of making the aggrieved party from pursuing the matter to a logical conclusion.
“The military should therefore not jump the gun. It will be very unfortunate and unfair for the DHQ to start releasing intimidating statements. If the target is to intimidate and bully people whose only lawful route to recover their stolen mandate, it won’t work,” he told Punchng.
The media aide also said, the province of the military is defence and not interpreting the constitution saying, “Their (Military) duty is defence. They are meant to intervene whenever they are called upon. It is not for them to start telling us what they think is in the Constitution. The Constitution shall be defended by the court when there is a logjam. Not by any other person or institution.”
