Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party have described as a new low
the handcuffing of the National Publicity Secretary of their party,
Olisa Metuh, stating that the APC regime was a step away from full blown
fascism.
The PDP Governors Forum said the action was meant to deride not only
Mr. Metuh but the PDP as well as cast the party in bad light before
Nigerians as a party of corrupt individuals even when they were yet to
be convicted by any competent court.In a statement on Thursday in Abuja Osaro Onaiwu, coordinator of the
forum, the governors said the APC regime was yet to learn from history,
therefore its banal exhibitionism and Telemundo antics of subjecting
accused persons like Mr. Metuh to inhuman treatment.
“The only reasonable conclusion we have reached is that the
anti-corruption agencies and other institutions of state have allowed
themselves to be dictated to by a single vindictive authority which
takes pleasure in using power anyhow and in anyway in gross abuse of the
constitution, African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and human
liberty.
“The cuffing of the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP
exemplifies a terrible decay of power by the APC regime which sees
itself bigger than the democratic state, Nigeria, which brought it to
power.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the Forum is not against the
anti-corruption mantra of the present regime of President Muhammadu
Buhari, but we insist it must be within the ambit of our constitution
and appropriate laws.
“Any other means is a descent into fascism with its attendant consequences in the long run,” the statement reads.
Mr. Osaro further observed that Section 34 (1) of the Constitution of
the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, as amended, frowns at all forms
of degradation of man particularly inhuman or degrading punishment and
treatment, of which Metuh was subjected to.
The governors called on security and anti-graft agencies to be
mindful of how they take instructions from political office holders as
the tide of power was constantly moving, as the APC will not be in power
forever.
They also urged civil society to resist such ultra-constitutional actions before Nigeria becomes the private estate of the APC.
Source:premiumtimes
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