PDP asks Int’l community, Nigerians for help over spokesman’s arrest

chika ebuzor

January 6, 2016 4:04 AM

The party also alleged that there is a plot to poison Metuh in detention.

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on Nigerians and the International community to stand up and fight what it called the anti-democratic tendencies of the Buhari administration.

The party said this in a statement released by its National Secretary, Prof. Adewale Oladipo.

According to Vanguard Newspapers, Oladipo said “We are also calling on the international community and well-meaning Nigerians to stand up for this democracy, which our party nurtured for 16 years and deepened to a level where the opposition, for the first time in our political history, had the opportunity to win in a general election.”

Adding that “This onslaught against our spokesman, according to intelligence available to us is part of a larger script by the government to ensure that PDP wings are finally clipped in their mission to install a dictatorial one-party state in the country.

“The excesses of security agencies under this government, especially the Directorate of Security Services (DSS) and the EFCC, in abridging the human rights of PDP members have become worrisome and a threat to our democratic evolution.”

The party also alleged that there is a plot to poison Metuh in detention.

The spokesman for the EFCC, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, disclosed to newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday, January 5, 2016, that Metuh is being investigated over the N1.4 billion traced to the account of a company, Destra Investment Limited, linked to him in the arms contract scam.

Uwujaren, also said he was not aware of Metuh’s arrest.

Read: Party accuses EFCC of human rights violation

During an investigation into the arms purchase scandal involving the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, the EFCC reportedly traced N1.4billion to the account of a company linked to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) spokesman, Olisa Metuh.

The PDP Publicity Secretary was reportedly arrested on Tuesday, January 5, 2016, in his home at Prince and Princess Estate in Abuja.

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