The People’s Democratic Party has accused the All Progressives Congress and President Muhammadu Buhari of a desperate move to silence the opposition.
The party which released a statement condemning the alleged continued harassment of Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, described the harassment as a deliberate attempt to silence opposition, using security agencies.
In the statement, PDP decried the misuse of anti-graft agencies and security forces by President Muhammdu Buhari to ‘dent and quench’ leaders of the opposition, as the 2019 is fast approaching.
In a statement released after a series of defections from the APC to the PDP, the National Publicity Secretary. Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, calls the harassment of opposition as a threat to democracy:
“We condemn the harassment of the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, opposition leaders, and voices of dissent, by the failed Muhammadu Buhari, led Federal Government of the All Progressives Congress.
Just a few days after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and over 200 policemen practically held Senator Ekweremadu hostage to prevent the defection of All Progressives Congress (APC) Senators to the PDP, the EFCC has continued to harass Senator Ike Ekweremadu to cover its shame.
We wish to remind Nigerians and the international community that this is only the newest in the series of attempts to destroy the Senator politically in the run-up to the 2019 general elections.
It is of grave concern to us that while corruption and corrupt persons abound in the APC, the EFCC prefers to chase after innocent members of our Party and the oppositions
While the likes of Babachir Lawal Abba Kyari, Ayo Oke, Kemi Adeosun, Abdulrasheed Maina, and his accomplice Okio Obomo-Obas and scores of others in the ruling party APC with fraud and corruption related charges walk free, the anti-graft agencies have continued in their reckless desperation to harass and dent leaders of the opposition in the name of anti-corruption war that Nigerians and the world have come to see for what it is, prosecution of the opposition”.