The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) has said the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo should “shed the idea of
using” the sacked Director General of the Department of Services, Lawal Daura
as “the fall guy” for Tuesday’s invasion of the National Assembly by security
forces.
PDP insisted that the invasion by
the DSS and the Police was with the “absolute knowledge and approval of
President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Osinbajo, and the All Progressives
Congress (APC).”
A statement by PDP’s
spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan said Daura’s sack was an “afterthought,
diversionary and deceitful.”
PDP recalled that it issued
series of statements at the weekend alerting Nigerians to the plots against the
National Assembly and democracy ahead of President Buhari’s overseas trip but
the Presidency was silent on all the alarms raised.
The statement reads, “If
anything, they urged the Senators and Members to remain steaded in their grave
plan to ridicule our bastion of democracy, the National Assembly.
The Presidency’s sack of Daura
was a damage-control stunt and a knee-jerk gimmick which came as a response to
the national and international outcry against the armed invasion of our
legislature by security agents as directed by the Buhari Presidency.
“The action of security agents
that blocked the National Assembly is treasonable and must attract appropriate
sanctions under our law. It is not enough to take populist approach of easing
Daura out of office. Our party demands an immediate investigation by an
independent panel of inquiry headed by a retired Chief Justice of Nigeria to
examine the remote and immediate cause of the invasion.
“Moreover, Section 16 of the
Legislative House (Powers and Privileges) Act, 2017, provides that any person,
who by any act, obstructs members of the National Assembly from performing
their legislative duties, is liable and punishable by imprisonment.
“Nigerians observed that the
invasion was not only by the DSS, but also had the involvement of the Police,
whose high command has not received any sanction or reprimand by the Presidency
for its serial acts of impunity.”
PDP, however, commended “federal
lawmakers, Nigerians, the media as well as the international community who rose
in defence of our democracy, even as we remind all not to let down their
guards.”
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It will be golden if PDP can just keep its mouth shut for once. Do they think their whisky-drunk PDP lawmakers in the National Assembly complex at that time would have been able to stop the masked DSS guys posted by Daura? What if it's found out that Daura connived with the Senate President as a decoy to win public sentiments for his 2019 Election agenda?
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