The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday raised alarm of clandestine plots by certain agents of the federal government and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to clamp down on key members of opposition parties ahead of the 2019 general elections.
Part of this plot, according to the PDP, was to arrest members of the civil society, opinion leaders, the media and professional groups who refused to buy into the fabrications, lies, deceptions and propaganda of the APC and the Federal Government.
Spokesman of the party, Kola Ologbondiyan disclose this in a press statement in Abuja, adding that, “the plot against opposition will be hinged on trump up charges of corruption, allegations of plotting to disrupt the processes leading to the 2019 general elections as well as alleged politicization of security issues in the country”.
He claimed that the first leg of this scheme was to commence a vicious intimidation and harassment of PDP members who have refused to succumb to pressure to join the APC in their undemocratic quest to create room for a one-party state in Nigeria.
Ologbodinyan further stated that this will be followed by arrests, detention as well as jailing of members of the opposition and others perceived to be opposed to the interests of the APC ahead of the elections.
In his words, “It is important to state that the trajectory of our political history neither provides a space for a one party state nor a self-succession shenanigan that seeks occupation of political offices without elections.
“The PDP, which grew our democracy to become sustainable and successfully handed power to the opposition after the 2015 general election, has a responsibility to ensure that democracy and the application of its tenets flourish without let in our country.
“The PDP and the majority of Nigerians, rallying under our repositioned platform, will never be intimidated or cowed on the principles of democracy.”
The PDP however advised that the APC and its federal government should provide good governance and live up to its campaign promises of eradicating corruption, vanquishing insurgency and bringing our currency to the value of one naira to one US dollar, among others.
The main opposition party also said the APC and the federal government must know that the country belongs to every Nigerian and that the hidden plot against the people would be firmly resisted not only by PDP members but also by generality of Nigerians and the international community.
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