PDP expresses concerns over alleged plot to arrest Obasanjo
By The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed concerns over the revelation of former President Olusegun Obasanjo that the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government is plotting to arrest him on trumped up charges and detain him indefinitely.
In a statement by PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, he condemned what he called APC’s resort to persecution, intimidation, harassment and framing of PDP members, as well as dissenting voices, to suppress opposition ahead of the 2019 election.
According to the party, the revelation from Obasanjo has heightened the tension in the polity and a confirmation that the nation has descended into a police state.
“The alarm by Obasanjo has further shown that the PDP has not been crying wolf regarding the plots by the APC Federal Government to frame, arrest, detain and arraign political opponents of the APC, including regular Nigerians, for holding or canvasing opinions that are divergent to the interest of those in power.
“We invite Nigerians to note the travails faced by perceived opponents of Buhari Presidency including Senate President Bukola Saraki, Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, Senators Shehu Sani and Dino Melaye, who had raised similar alarms in the past.
“The PDP urges Nigerians to note how APC controlled security forces, on Wednesday, arrested and detained opposition members in Ogun state, including a member of the House of Assembly, Adebiyi Adeleye, who
were going about their legitimate activities, only to tag them as cultists.
“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,” the statement reads.
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