The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) has alleged the federal government is plotting to clamp down on
opposition figures.
Addressing a press conference in
Abuja on Wednesday, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP spokesman, said the government has
set up a committee to “persecute” its leaders.
He accused the All Progressives
Congress (APC) administration of planning to “emasculate and effectively
decapitate” the opposition in the country.
“Currently, the APC has fully
commenced a major onslaught on leaders and key voices in the main opposition
party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), particularly our state governors,
opposition leaders in the national assembly as well as our presidential
hopefuls,” he said.
Ologbondiyan said the alleged
plot is to “push a self-succession bid for President Muhammadu Buhari seeing
that their (APC) chances of winning the presidential election get slimmer by
the day”.
“[There are] advanced plots by
the federal government to clamp down on key leaders of the party and begin to
drop in public places, alleged confessional statements made under duress in the
desperate attempt to achieve a pre-determined end of validating the bandying of
corruption allegations against members of the PDP,” he also said.
“We have also been made aware of
a special presidential committee put up by the federal government to persecute
our leaders.
“Already, no fewer than 28 cases
have been filed based on trumped-up charges. Also, we are privy to series of
clandestine meetings between agents of the APC and some compromised judicial
officers to get conviction at all cost.”
The PDP also said Nigeria is
currently passing through her “darkest hours”.
The party spokesman added: “Our
constitutional democracy is under severe attack. Agents of fascism are on the
prowl.
“As we speak, Nigeria, as a
nation is being pushed to the brinks and personal freedom of citizens under our
constitution is no longer guaranteed.”
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