The Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, Presidential Campaign Organisation, PPCO, has said the forthcoming
election may not be peaceful due to alleged harassment of the opposition by the
President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government.
PPCO made the claim while
petitioning the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen over the
incarceration of Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye and popular activist, Deji
Adeyanju.
Addressing a press conference on
Sunday, the Director of PPCO’s Media and Publicity, Kola Ologbondiyan, informed
Onnoghen that there was plot to charge Melaye, Adeyanju and others opposing the
government before compromised judges.
Ologbondiyan claimed that the aim
of the government was to put opposition out of circulation till after 2019.
Buhari’s self-succession bid.
“We alerts the entire world and
particularly the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) of the ongoing use of the
Police to clamp down on opposition figures, particularly members of the PDP
Presidential Campaign Council and outspoken CSOs on trumped-up criminal
charges.
“Part of the plot is to charge
such individuals before certain compromised judicial officers, in various
states, who have been briefed to detain, silence and put such opposition
figures and CSO members out of circulation until after elections are concluded.
“Particular cases at hand are
those of our Presidential Campaign Director on Civil Societies, Senator Dino
Melaye, who is being hounded for his outspokenness against the misrule of the
Buhari Presidency, as well as Civil Rights activist, Deji Adeyanju, who is
widely believed to have been held down in prison because of his scathing
criticism against the violations of the rights of Nigerians by the Buhari
Presidency.
“PPCO recalls that Senator Dino
Melaye had earlier alerted of plots by the Police to arrest and poison him. His
present ordeal as well as those of the civil rights activist, Deji Adeyanju, in
the hands of the Buhari-led authorities, is incendiary in an election year and
we insist
that no harm must come to them or
any member of the opposition or CSOs, before, during and after the elections.
“PPCO is aware that the aim is to
use the state apparatus of power to attempt to instill fear in Nigerians,
stifle free speech, cow opposition and CSOs to silence so as to pave for
President Buhari’s self-succession.
“This is a clear attempt to
return our nation to the nightmares of the 1984 when draconian leaders
forcefully subjugated innocent Nigerians under the grips of military Decree 2
and we urge the CJN to save our nation by insulating the judiciary from this
ignoble scheme.”
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