The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has alerted Nigerians on the plan by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its enforcers to use the police to clamp down on APC members.
The party said the killing of an APC Leader, Alhaji Azeez Asake by a notorious thug group known as Abija has become a weapon with which the PDP is turning around and hunting APC members on Lagos Island.
The Party urged the police to restrain their men from being used to foment trouble in Lagos.
In a statement yesterday, Lagos APC spokesman, Joe Igbokwe, said that the police, in a curious manner, released the main suspect in the gruesome murder, one Rafiu Bashorun a.k.a Abija and declared wanted three APC members; Mustapha Adekunle, Fatai Ali and Fatai Olori.
The party warned that nothing should be done to further provoke members of APC in Lagos because of the implication of such provocation in the face of the impunity and lawlessness the PDP is perpetrating.
“It is on record that we demanded for justice for the murder of Asake by thugs who work with Minister of State for Defence Musliu Obanikoro. We are demanding that the well-known real perpetrators of the crime against our member be brought to justice.
“We were under the impression that having arrested the perpetrator of the murder of Asake, the Police was determined to do a good job and bring the sponsors of that cruel act to justice.
“We were alarmed that the Police in a curious way not only mocks justice, released the prime suspect and escorted him home. In a bizarre twist, it rather declared wanted three members of our party in a move that we suspect is dictated by the very people that ordered the killing of Asake.
“This is a rehash of the cruel ear of military despotism when our patriots who were fighting for democracy and justice were attacked and blamed as the real perpetrators of these attacks. We are shocked that the police did not even care to be guided by little decency in freeing the suspect but using the same act as excuse to hunt and frame up his political associates.
“Lagos APC is saying that this is unacceptable even as we have been inundated by gory spectacles of PDP’s lawlessness, brigandage and impunity in seeking to overwhelm and conquer the badly governed country in 2015.
“We warn that we will never tolerate such act of brazen intimidation by a party that should be apologizing to Nigerians for taking it from a medium height to the very nadirs of development in sixteen bizarre years of corruption and rudderless gangsterism.
“We want to warn the police that it should not continue rubbing in on its not so good image. We warn that the Police risks being seen as the enemies of Lagosians should it allow itself to be used by desperate political way farers to perpetrate and cover crimes against Lagosians.
“We warn the police to restrain itself against the rampaging political greed of the PDP and fish out both the perpetrators and sponsors of the killing of Alhaji Asake as that remains the only path of truth and justice in this case.
“While we urge our teeming supporters and members to remain calm in the face of the increasing provocation from the PDP and its masters in Lagos, we warn that nothing should be done to challenge the readiness and competence of Lagosians to defend themselves against the annoying petulance of the greedy, desperate political invaders and their masters.
“The police should call off this annoying siege to our members right now and move in to arrest and prosecute both the perpetrators and sponsors of the killing of Alhaji Asake,” Igbokwe added.
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