PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is alarmed by the revelation of former President Olusegun Obasanjo that the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government is plotting to arrest him on trumped up costs and detain him indefinitely.
In an assertion signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP says the revelation coming from a Nigerian of Chief Obasanjo standing is terrifying because it has heightened the stress within the polity and confirmed our fears that our pricey nation has descended into a police state the place any Nigerian, who holds a divergent view to President Muhammodu Buhari 2019 re-election bid, turns into endangered.
It learn, “The alarm by Chief Obasanjo has additional proven that the PDP has not been crying wolf concerning the plots by the APC Federal Government to border, arrest, detain and arraign political opponents of the APC, together with common Nigerians, for holding or canvasing opinions which can be divergent to the curiosity of these in energy.
“We invite Nigerians to notice the travails confronted by perceived opponents of Buhari Presidency together with Senate President Bukola Saraki, Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, Senators Shehu Sani and Dino Melaye, who had raised related alarms up to now.
“The PDP urges Nigerians to notice how APC managed safety forces, on Wednesday, arrested and detained opposition members in Ogun state, together with a member of the House of Assembly, Hon Adebiyi Adeleye, who had been going about their legit actions, solely to tag them as cultists.
“The PDP condemns APC’s resort to persecution, intimidation, harassment and framing of our members, in addition to dissenting voices, simply to suppress the opposition forward of the 2019 election.
“PDP wants the APC and Buhari Presidency to note that no amount of coercion, intimidation and illegal arrests will alter the determination of Nigerians to vote out the dysfunctional APC and rescue our nation from the shackles of the Buhari Presidency and its misrule, come 2019.”