Kola Ologbondiyan
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal authorities of commencing a direct clampdown of main opposition leaders within the nation.
The party additionally alleged that the federal government was going after perceived political opponents in addition to people with pursuits and views that have been divergent to these of President Muhammadu Buhari, forward of the 2019 common elections.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, made the allegations on Saturday whereas addressing an information convention in Abuja.
He claimed that the clampdown was tailor-made to silence the opposition and those that refused to affix or assist the APC in a bid to allegedly emasculate different political events and undermine the nation’s legal guidelines and electoral system amongst others.
Apart from allegations of corruption, Ologbondiyan decried the alleged plots to clampdown and detain opposition leaders for prices bordering on treason and that some compromised judicial officers have been enlisted to offer convictions and jail members of the opposition.
It additionally vowed to not relent in resolve to return energy to the folks, restore democracy and nationwide cohesion, in addition to safeguard the nation’s territorial integrity, come 2019.
“The PDP is conscious of clandestine plots in opposition to key opposition leaders, notably, members of the PDP National Working Committee, some dissenting members of the APC, members of the civil society, opinion leaders, journalists and bloggers, who refuse to succumb to intimidation and that such individuals have already been listed and presently being trailed by brokers of the state.
“This has become manifest in the plot to rope members of “nPDP”, particularly these within the National Assembly, into gun-running and homicide prices simply because they got here out to voice their opposition to the APC authorities’s constitutional violations and govt brigandage within the operating of our nation’s affairs, the party claimed.