Abia state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, has condemned what it termed as unwarranted arrest and detention of Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, by the Department of State Service (DSS).
This is contained in a statement issued by the state publicity secretary, Don Ubani, and made available to DAILY POST, in Umuahia, the Abia state capital on Saturday.
The party called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately direct the secret sevice to release Senator Abaribe from its custody.
DAILY POST had reported that the Senator, representing Abia south zone in the National Assembly was arrested by security operatives in mufti in Friday.
According to the statement, “The Party is more worried and suspicious by the fact that after a tortuous thorough search of Senator Abaribe’s residence at Apo Legislative Quarters in Abuja; a search that found absolutely nothing incriminating against the Senator, the security personnel still went away with him and dumped him in their cell, leaving him not only incommunicado but also without assess to his lawyers and doctors.
“This act of incivility and gross abuse of the fundamental rights of Distinguished Senator Abaribe are not only unacceptable but equally condemnable.
“PDP in Abia State, therefore, calls on the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; Muhammadu Buhari, to direct, without further delay, the relevant Security Agency involved in this undemocratic invasion and erosion of the fundamental rights of Senator Abaribe to release him forthwith.
“PDP in Abia State also wishes to use this opportunity to remind the President and his Party; All Progressives Congress, that descending ruthlessly on the opposition in a year proceeding a general election constitutes a threat, not only to members of the opposition but even more against constitutional democracy in Nigeria.
“The leadership of PDP in Abia State, however, urges Distinguished Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe to take this situation with equanimity of mind, as the oppressors of vocal Nigerians who stand against violation of our democratic norms have only succeeded in making him a Hero.”
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