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Accuses FG of setting up committee to prosecute it's party bigwigs.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has raised an alarm over alleged plot by the Federal executive to frame up and humiliate Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, governors Nyesom Wike and Ayodele Fayose of Rivers and Ekiti states respectively as good as its presidential hopefuls ahead of the 2019 normal elections.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said to actualise the sinister plot, the All Progressives Congress (APC)-managed Federal government has hooked up a presidential committee to persecute leaders of the opposition party.
Ologbondiyan, who spoke for the duration at a press convention on the PDP National Secretariat in Abuja, nonetheless, vowed that they'd resist all attempts to cow them.
Ekweramadu, lately, has been in the eye of the storm over alleged non-assertion of belongings, specifically 22 residences scattered in unique components of the world, including Abuja.
Additionally, few days ago, Wike alleged plans by means of the federal government to set him up overseas.
The PDP spokesman mentioned when you consider that the ruling get together discovered that its possibilities within the 2019 general elections is seemingly slimmer, it has determined to launch a frontal assault on leading opposition leaders, perceived presidential hopefuls and different credible Nigerians.
Ologbodiyan claimed the APC and the Federal government have come to be mortally afraid of the PDPs new repute as a rallying factor for Nigerians.
He mentioned that was the cause the APC-led Federal govt in its desperate bid to win the 2019 common election has resorted to undemocratic activities below the guise of combating corruption.
You might be already mindful of the numerous uncovered plots by the APC and its Federal Executive to border up and humiliate the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, as well as PDP governors, mainly, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike and his Ekiti state counterpart, Governor Ayo Fayose.
That is furthermore to advanced plots by the Federal government to clampdown on key leaders of the party and start to drop in public areas, alleged confessional statements made under duress that will brand and label corruption allegations on the opposition
now we have also been made aware of a specified presidential committee put up with the aid of the APC Federal govt to persecute our leaders. Already, no fewer than 28 instances were filed situated on trumped up charges. Also, we're aware of sequence of clandestine meetings between retailers of the APC and some compromised judicial officers to get conviction at any cost, Ologbondiyan stated.
He said, Let it be recognized by all that the New PDP is now reposutioned and can't be cowed and that we are greater than competent, inclined and overtly competent to make use of all means sensible and available within the ambits of the regulation and the principles of democracy to stiffly resist and stop the APC and the Federal government on this evil scheme.
We know that our governors, mainly Governor Wike and Governor Fayose were marked due to the fact of their principled role towards the obvious incompetence, corruption and undemocratic credentials of the Buhari administration, for which Nigerians have been subjected to the worst type of suffering within the last three years.
Ologbondiyan said in as much as the PDP is not in opposition to the fight against corruption, it will do everything in its power to preserve its governors and leaders from undue harassment from the federal government.
We, nevertheless, demand that prosecutions need to be executed in a reputable, transparent, and constitutional method. We can not permit the persecution of our contributors underneath the guise of the combat towards corruption, he stated.
Nonetheless, reacting to the assertion, the national Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mallam Bolaji Abdullah said he had no comment to such assertion from an idle party.
Many folks have requested my response or feedback to the assertion credited to the PDP that the Federal govt has marked Senator Ekweremadu, governors Wike and Fayose for frame up. But I dont have comment for such rubbish announcement, he mentioned in anger and dropped the phone.
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