National Chairman of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Uche Secondus has asked journalists and other
vocal Nigerians to rise and challenge the “anti-people” tendencies of President
Muhammadu Buhari.
Secondus, who addressed newsmen
at the Adamawa State Government House in Yola in the course of a visit to
Governor Ahmadu Fintiri on Tuesday, also charged Buhari to release all
political prisoners.
He emphasised the issue of the
arrest last Saturday of the pro-democracy activist and convener of the
#RevolutionNow movement, Omoyele Sowore, demanding that the former presidential
candidate be freed forthwith.
The PDP chairman said, “We ask Mr
President, Mr Buhari, to release political prisoners. It is not done in any
political dispensation. What we are seeing today is as if we are in a military
era. He should urgently release political prisoners and allow a political
atmosphere and a country where there is freedom of speech.”
He then challenged journalists to
lead the charge, saying, “I want to call on journalists and media managers not
to sit on the fence. They can’t just sit and watch the country sliding. They
played major role in the past, removing the country from the hands of the
military. They have tempered with some among them.
“It is time for them to join
hands with the good people of Nigeria to stand on the path of truth, on the
path of democracy. The president must release political prisoners, particularly
the presidential candidate of AAC (Africa Action Congress), Sowore.”
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