Timi Frank, a former deputy
spokesman of All Progressives Congress (APC), has called on the US, UK,
European Union and the UN to call President Muhammadu Buhari to order over
alleged harassment of the opposition.
Frank made the appeal in a statement
he issued on Thursday.
The former deputy spokesman of
the APC said there is a “plot to arrest” Nnamdi Okonkwo, managing director of
Fidelity Bank, because Peter Obi, vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), was a former chairman of the bank.
Apart from Okonkwo, Frank said
other businessmen have been arrested for supporting Obi and Atiku Abubakar, PDP
presidential candidate.
According to him, the arrest of
Doyin Okupe and the said search of the residence of Abubakar’s sons is
“unlawful”.
“The APC’s government should not
be allowed to create another monster. If nothing is done to halt this ongoing
harassment, it will get to a state where people will begin to defend themselves
and by that time the current Boko Haram insurgency will be child’s play, ” he
said.
“In a democracy, how can a
president treat his country men and women as less than human? The APC’s
government is using state apparatus like the Police and EFCC to intimidate
innocent Nigerians, unlawfully. Nigerians are living in fear. Freedom of Speech
has been put on hold under President Buhari’s government. Critics of the
administration are increasingly being hurled into jail.
“Despite signing the Peace
Accord, we believe that President Buhari will not abide by its tenets based on
his antecedents. Unless the friends of Nigeria come to its aid, unless this
government is put to check, it is not only the 2019 election that is
endangered. The continued existence of the country is also in jeopardy.
“So, I urge the international
community and all the lovers of democracy all over the world to prevail on
President Muhammadu Buhari to stop all forms of intimidation and harassment of
Nigerian citizens over spurious allegations.”
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Dummy! Reporting your school mate to your teacher? What do you expect US and UK to do? Send in the marines? You lack intelligence in international politics.
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