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PDP Alleges Fresh Plot To Remove Saraki

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…Condemns Clampdown on Civil Society Activists, Others

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) alerts of a fresh plot to use the 
Police and the Department of State Services (DSS) to forcefully remove 
the President of the Senate and Director General of the PDP Presidential 
Campaign Organization (PPCO), Senator Bukola Saraki, from office as the 
Senate President.

The party also condemns in totality, the continued clampdown, 
harassment, intimidation, arrest and detention of members of the Civil 
Society Organizations (CSOs) by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led 
administration.

The plot, against Senator Saraki, which is akin to the last invasion of 
the National Assembly by anti-democratic forces, is to scuttle the 
success being recorded by the PDP Presidential campaign organization in 
its consultations and winning campaigns across the nation ahead of the 
2019 general election.

The PDP is privy to clandestine meetings by the Buhari Presidency and 
the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), which has not 
been able to constitute a Presidential campaign organization, on ways to 
derail the PDP Presidential campaign by going against Senator Saraki.

Part of the plot is to use the police and the DSS to fabricate spurious 
charges against Senator Saraki, distract him and destabilize the PDP 
Presidential campaign, a scheme the PDP described as dead on arrival, as 
Nigerians are solidly behind the PDP in the mission to rescue the nation 
from the misrule of the APC.

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In condemning the clampdown on CSOs, the party says the development 
smacks of scare mongering apparently to intimidate and cow the Civil 
Society from criticizing the misrule of the Buhari administration.

Of particular reference is the re-arresting and continued detention of a 
right activist, Deji Adeyanju, by the Police for a matter, which 
documents, in the public domain, show he has been discharged and 
acquitted by the court.

Information available shows that the authorities have not been 
confortable with Deji Adeyanju’s criticisms. However, arresting and 
detaining him on a matter for which there has been a conclusive judicial 
determination 9 years ago is in clear violation of the 1999 Constitution 
(as amended) and in direct infringement of his right as a citizen under 
the law.

This is more so as even the spokesperson of President Buhari’s Campaign 
Organisation Festus Keyamo SAN, and who was Adeyanju’s defence attorney 
counsel on the matter which was before the court between 2005 and 2009, 
has, in a media report, attested that Adeyanju was discharged and 
acquitted, and that the prosecution did not file any appeal because it 
was satisfied with the ruling.

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Nigeria is a democratic nation governed by the constitution and due 
process of the law. Allowing such impunity and trampling by security 
agencies to fester, will be a direct invitation to anarchy and chaos; 
and this is not the way to go.

Our citizens are also free, within the ambit of the laws, to hold the 
government accountable on issues. If the government of the day is not 
comfortable with criticisms, the acceptable approach is to provide 
answers, instead of this resort to a clamp down, using a matter that has 
been decided by the court.

The PDP therefore demands the immediate release of Mr. Adeyanju, if the 
police had found nothing incriminatory to charge him to court, within 48 
hours of his arrest, in line with the provisions of the 1999 
Constitution (as amended).

Signed:

Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary

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