According to the NCP, the planned secret trial would introduce a dangerous precedent and jeopardize the ideal of fairness to Nigerian citizens. The party also declared that the plan was inconsistent with Mr. Buhari’s pledge of “change.”
The NCP’s position was contained in a statement distributed by the party’s national secretary, Ayodele Akele. The party drew attention to several international cases bordering on grave crime and terrorism that were not secretly tried.
The party condemned “any attempt to try Colonel Dasuki or any other Nigerian for that matter in camera,” the NCP stated.
