Former Deputy National Publicity
of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Timi Frank, has claimed that
there were ongoing plans by President Muhammadu Buhari government to arrest the
Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki; presidential candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar; House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu
Dogara; and National Chairman of PDP, Prince Uche Secondus.
Frank made this claim in a
statement he signed and forwarded on Sunday.
He also condemned in strong terms
the ongoing police siege on Senator Dino Melaye’s Abuja home.
He said the government was
plotting to arrest Melaye and keep him out of circulation ahead of the 2019
polls.
Frank described the invasion of
the lawmaker’s residence as a part of the Buhari administration’s latest
strategy to forcefully incarcerate vocal members of the opposition in order to
pave way for APC’s victory in the forthcoming polls.
He added, “This is condemnable
and unacceptable in a democracy.
“Earlier in the life of this
dictatorial administration, agents of the Department of State Services, DSS,
forcefully gained entrance into the residence of some Judicial Officers in the
midnight, all in the name of anti-corruption crusade.
“The Nigeria police has now taken
this impunity a notch higher by disconnecting water and power supply from the House
of a Federal legislator for no justifiable cause. This is the second time the
police would besiege Melaye’s house under the present Inspector General of
Police, Ibrahim Idris.
“We must all condemn this
terrorist act being visited on a Nigerian citizen. Today it is Melaye. Tomorrow
it might be you or me. Nobody is safe in this country any more.
“If you escape being mowed down
by criminals and outlaws because of the inability of security forces to protect
the people, the same security forces will come after you by breaking your house
and disrupting your water and power supply, all in the name of trying to arrest
you to face spurious charges.
“We know that no individual can
be above the laws of a society, but when lawful agencies themselves break the
law by turning themselves into political instruments of vendetta against
perceived opposition figures, then they are invariably preparing grounds for
chaos and anarchy to reign.
“They are doing this because they
don’t want the 2019 elections to hold. They fear defeat and they are seeing
defeat. They want to scuttle the elections and blame it on unrest and
insecurity.
“Is it for nothing that the
military that are battling to hold their own against Boko Haram insurgents in
the northeast without success, recently announced that they will commence
Operation Python Dance (operation intimidate opposition and rig elections for
Buhari and APC) throughout the entire states of the federation in January?
“Is it for nothing that the
police, whose over 100 of its personnel deployed to fight Boko Haram alongside
the military in the Northeast recently abdicated their duty posts? Yet they
have enough personnel to lay siege on Melaye’s house with a vow to stay there
until they deliver him to jail.
“They recently delivered Deji
Adeyanju to prison. Now they are after Melaye. I am aware of their plans to
also arrest Senate President Bukola Saraki, the National Chairman of the
Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Uche Secondus, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, ex-Vice
President and presidential candidate of the PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Speaker
Yakubu Dogara and all those that matter in the opposition’s hierarchy in the
country on trumped up charges.
“This is the time for all men of
good conscience to rise and speak against democratic demagoguery now in full
bloom in the country under Buhari. The fabrics of our nation are being torn
apart and we cannot afford to remain silent while our country is being ravaged
by flames ignited by a failed administration.
“I also urge the international
community to note the illegal use of the nation’s security to crackdown on
opposition figures by the present administration. I dare say that no amount of
intimidation, arrest and persecution will stop Nigerians from voting out Buhari
in the coming election. ‘How many opposition politicians police and soldiers go
kill?’
“I hereby call on the
international community to prevail on President Buhari to withdraw the police
from Melaye’s house and free Deji Adeyanju because we are in democracy and not
a military junta.”
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