PDP expresses worry over plots to implicate Saraki
Read the press statement from PDP below abeg
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is deeply concerned over reports
by Senate President Bukola Saraki of alleged plots by the Police to use
suspected cultists, who have been in detention, to implicate him and the
Governor of Kwara state, Abdulfatah Ahmed.
The PDP, as a party, has taken judicious note of assertions by the
Senate President that the said plot is allegedly being hatched by the
Inspector General of Police, Mr. Idris Ibrahim, “to settle scores” with
the Senate over its recent declaration that he is not fit to hold public
office.
The PDP is alarmed by the trend of brazen assaults on the
institutions of democracy, particularly the National Assembly and the
judiciary, in addition to unrelenting attacks on dissenting voices,
especially as we approach the 2019 general elections.
Nigerians will recall that the PDP had earlier alerted of plots to
arrest, harass, detain dissenting voices and opposition members on
trumped-up charges, as well as intimidate institutions of democracy and
pave the way for a one-party state in our country.
Nigerians will further recall the invasion of the Senate chambers by
thugs, who disrupted proceedings and carted away the mace. Only last
Friday, hoodlums violently attacked a High Court in Rivers state with
guns, in a bid to stop the judiciary from making pronouncements on an
electoral matter.
The PDP therefore charges the National Assembly to defend the
nation’s democracy by sparing no energy in pursuing its resolution of
engaging President Muhammadu Buhari on these assaults, in addition to
putting in motion, all legislative instruments available to it, to
curtail all excesses in government before the situation finally gets out
of hand.
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