The Lagos State Chapter of Peoples Democratic
Party has called on the State Security Service
(SSS), to arrest the National Leader of the All
Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, for
allegedly making comments capable of
worsening the country’s security challenges.
In a statement signed by the Chapter’s publicity
secretary, Taofik Gani, the party claimed that
Tinubu’s comments were “inflammatory,
inciting and criminal utterances capable of
worsening the current security challenges in the
country.”
The Party made reference to statements made
by the former Lagos governor, stating that Bola
Tinubu “had stated publicly that in the coming
elections at Ekiti and Osun states, anyone who
attempts to rig will be murdered and roasted.”
“The statement was made at LAUTECH,
Ogbomosho, during the investiture of the APC
National leader as Chancellor of the Higher
Institution.”
The PDP expressed concern over the comments
which they described as criminal and was
intended to target their members. “We are
indeed worried that such inflammatory, inciting
and criminal pronouncements can be made in
our country at this period that we are
confronted with serious security problems in
some parts of the country.”
The Party further alleged that the APC leader
had prepared a list of targets and will use the
elections as decoy to hit them.
“We recall well that a similar careless statement
made by a Presidential Candidate, who is also a
member of APC is believed to have also
aggravated the violence in the North. The
situation in the north may not have been this
bad if the Security Agencies had acted fast.
Hence, this current agent provocateur must be
swiftly curtailed.
“The Security Agencies, especially SSS must not
be cowed by his over bloated status, but arrest
him and even prosecute him.”
The party has called on the security agencies to
interrogate Tinubu, stressing that failure to do
so would be seen as either an act of
compromise or docility, which would portend
great danger for the polity.
“The security agencies must therefore act fast
to prove that they are on top of security issues
in the land,” the party
