The Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum (PDPGF) has condemned “police harassment of the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, under the guise of investigating the alteration of Senate standing rules”.
A statement by its media office in Abuja and signed by Patrick Okon, frowned on what it described as the obvious prodding of the police by the Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) “as a result of their desperation to remove the deputy senate president who was elected by his peers.”
PDP governors also called on the newly appointed acting Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mrs. Amina Bala Zakari, to “recuse herself from the role of acting chairman because of obvious conflict of interests as a result of her long-standing relationship with President Buhari both on family and official levels.
“The honourable thing for Mrs. Zakari to do is to recuse herself of this role as nobody who knows the level of her relationship with the president can believe she will be impartial in her conduct of any matter that the president has vested interest, in this case the success of APC over the PDP in any election, especially with the governorship elections coming up in Bayelsa and Kogi states.”
The forum called on Nigerians to “hold the APC accountable to all the broken promises so far”.
It claimed that the ruling party has shown itself incapable of delivering on the change it promised during the campaign.
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