The All Progressives Congress has strongly condemned the harassment of its Deputy National Secretary, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, by the Department of State Security, describing as “a shameful overkill” the storming of his residence in Abuja by armed DSS operatives on Friday.
The party alleged that the security agents attempted to apprehend the former FCT minister “without producing any arrest warrant.”
In a statement in Abuja on Friday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party expressed shock that the DSS was seeking to arrest El-Rufai for exercising his constitutional right of free speech.
It said there was nothing inciting or extraordinary in the statement credited to El-Rufai that there might be violence if the 2015 general elections were not free and fair.
”What our Deputy National Secretary said is a statement of fact and should not warrant any harassment, unless of course the DSS is saying that the 2015 general elections will not be free and fair,” APC said to justify El-Rufai’s statement.
”The statement is a matter of cause and effect and amounts to a patriotic call for the 2015 general elections to be free, fair and credible. If this statement now rankles the DSS, then the department has a lot of explanation to do to convince Nigerians that it was not engaging in a witch-hunt, considering the case instituted by Malam El-Rufai against it (DSS) over his illegal detention in a hotel in Akwa during the Anambra governorship poll last November.” Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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After the arrest he should be jailed with that statement he offer why all this northerns like fight like this war war all the time if they started the war can they stand it they shold go nd ask the biafra family the meaning of war now ....useless sickler what is the benefit of his administartion when he was a minister he render some people homeless anh he now get mouth to pronounce war idiot
ReplyDeleteWatch what u say,
DeleteDSS should have beaten him up first so that he will have a taste of what violence is like.
ReplyDeleteHuman right does not give you right to heat up the country by your utterance. If anyone behaves like animal he should be treated like animal and so no human right because he is not human.
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ReplyDeleteWhat happened when As(gb)ari dokubo said there would be no niger if gej is not returned in 2015?
ReplyDeleteThose who make peaceful change impossible make a violent one invitable.