The All Progressives Congress
(APC) Sokoto State chapter yesterday warned the state governor, Aminu Waziri
Tambuwal, and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against further harassment of
its members and supporters.
The APC, which described as
untoward act of aggression, repression and intimidation by the governor and his
party, accused them of sponsoring thugs to commit the dastardly act.
Similarly, the opposition APC
said the PDP administration in the state owed Sokoto people explanations as to
the alleged physical assault on civil servants and their replacements by touts.
“Anything in the contrary will
only go to further confirm that the government is fully behind these dastardly
actions and aiding and abetting them,” a statement by the Sokoto APC chairman,
Sadik Isah Achida, stated.
Achida further said, “Any silence
would also confirm our apprehension and due concerns thus APC would be
compelled to enforce the rights of its supporters.
“We will not fold our arms and
allow such flagrant and dastardly attacks, acts of aggression and intimidation.
We will not, even for a second, hesitate in allowing our supporters to use any
available means to lawfully defend themselves and enforce their fundamental
human rights.
“All Nigerians have equal rights
and freedom of movement, right to live, right to practice one’s religion,
meaningful socio- economic transactions, right to belong to any political party
and array of other enforceable rights among others enjoyable by all Nigerians,”
Achida said.
Further, he pointed out that
despite the PDP peace credentials that filled the airwaves, hoodlums keep
parading themselves, caning and flogging people suspected and perceived to be
APC supporters, claiming they were cleansing them for integration into the
society.
“It is apt and desirable for the
PDP to either confirm its complicity in these atrocities or deny as well bring
the obnoxious activities to a halt and take necessary steps to apprehend the
perpetrators and charge them to court.
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