Popular human rights activist, Femi Falana (SAN) has described the shifting of the 2015 polls by six weeks as a coup against the constitution by the national security adviser (NSA) and the security chiefs.
Accordingly, Falana called for the prosecution of the NSA and the service chiefs, saying “even though the NSA is a member of the National Security Council, he cannot usurp the constitutional responsibilities of the body with the connivance of the service chiefs”.
In a statement he issued yesterday condemning the postponement of the polls, Falana disclosed that since President Goodluck Jonathan was unable to convince the National Assembly to perfect his tenure elongation bid “on spurious grounds, the service chiefs allowed themselves to be manipulated to subvert the democratic process.