The major opposition party in Nigeria, Peoples Democratic Party has released a statement on the events that took place at the Nigerian Senate this morning (Wednesday morning), blaming the ruling party for being behind the event they referred to as an attempted ‘coup’. The statement blamed the Presidency and the ruling party of All Progressives Congress for masterminding the attack that saw five thugs invading the National Assembly and bolting away with the Mace in broad daylight.
The statement which was released the spokesperson of the party Mr Kola Ologbodiyan on their social media handle said:
PDP Decries Invasion of Senate…Accuses @OfficialAPCNig, Presidency. We condemn in terms the invasion of the National Assembly @nassnigeria and decries the seizure of the Senate mace as a direct assault on the legislature and bold attempt to truncate Nigeria’s democracy.
The @APCNigeria has foisted on our nation an irredeemable autocracy, which has in 3 years of governance, gone beyond limits to force Nigerians to accept a government that has no respect for freedom and the ideals of democracy, particularly the constitutional separation of powers.
Is it not strange that a legislative day appointed to further deliberate on the re-ordering of sequence of election will be the day that some elements would invade
@nassnigeria, particularly, the hallowed chambers of the Senate, to disrupt legislative proceeding & seize the mace?Equally strange is the compromising of security
@PoliceNG in the National Assembly@nassnigeria paving the way for the invasion. The parliament, all over the world, is the bastion of democracy, without which government becomes autocratic and totalitarian.We urge Nigerians to pause and reflect on the series of assaults on our legislature by the
@OfficialAPCNig, the persecution and harassment of the leaders and members of the Senate on trumped-up charges, including declaring a serving senator wanted by the@PoliceNG.We therefore charge the
@nassnigeria to bring forth every legislative instrument to protect itself from external aggression as well as unraveling every persons, offices and institutions that played any form of roles in this wild attempt to scuttle our hard earned democracy.