Timi Frank says FG planning to arrest Atiku, others
Frank revealed that Senate President Bukola Saraki and the PDP chairman, Uche Secondus are also on the list of those to be arrested.
A former spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Timi Frank has alleged that the Federal Government is planning to arrest the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar.
Frank said that Senate President Bukola Saraki and the PDP chairman, Uche Secondus are also on the list of those to be arrested.
Frank called on all Nigerians to condemn the
action, saying that the plan is to keep Melaye out of circulation till
after the elections in 2019.
He said “This is condemnable and unacceptable in a democracy.
“Earlier in the life of this dictatorial
administration, agents of the Department of State Services, DSS,
forcefully gained entrance into the residence of some Judicial Officers
in the midnight, all in the name of anti-corruption crusade.
“The Nigeria police has now taken this
impunity a notch higher by disconnecting water and power supply from the
House of a Federal legislator for no justifiable cause. This is the
second time the police would besiege Melaye’s house under the present
Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris.
“We must all condemn this terrorist act
being visited on a Nigerian citizen. Today it is Melaye.
Tomorrow it
might be you or me. Nobody is safe in this country any more.
“If you escape being mowed down by
criminals and outlaws because of the inability of security forces to
protect the people, the same security forces will come after you by
breaking your house and disrupting your water and power supply, all in
the name of trying to arrest you to face spurious charges.
“We know that no individual can be above
the laws of a society, but when lawful agencies themselves break the law
by turning themselves into political instruments of vendetta against
perceived opposition figures, then they are invariably preparing grounds
for chaos and anarchy to resign.
“They are doing this because they don’t
want the 2019 elections to hold. They fear defeat and they are seeing
defeat. They want to scuttle the elections and blame it on unrest and
insecurity.
“Is it for nothing that the military that
are battling to hold their own against Boko Haram insurgents in the
northeast without success, recently announced that they will commence
Operation Python Dance (operation intimidate opposition and rig
elections for Buhari and APC) throughout the entire states of the
federation in January?
“Is it for nothing that the police, whose
over 100 of its personnel deployed to fight Boko Haram alongside the
military in the Northeast recently abdicated their duty posts? Yet they
have enough personnel to lay siege on Melaye’s house with a vow to stay
there until they deliver him to jail.
“They recently delivered Deji Adeyanju to
prison. Now they are after Melaye. I am aware of their plans to also
arrest Senate President Bukola Saraki, the National Chairman of the
Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Uche Secondus, Senator Ike Ekweremadu,
ex-Vice President and presidential candidate of the PDP, Alhaji Atiku
Abubakar, Speaker Yakubu Dogara and all those that matter in the
opposition’s hierarchy in the country on trumped up charges.
“This is the time for all men of good
conscience to rise and speak against democratic demagoguery now in full
bloom in the country under Buhari. The fabrics of our nation are being
torn apart and we cannot afford to remain silent while our country is
being ravaged by flames ignited by a failed administration.
“I also urge the international community
to note the illegal use of the nation’s security to crackdown on
opposition figures by the present administration. I dare say that no
amount of intimidation, arrest and persecution will stop Nigerians from
voting out Buhari in the coming election. ‘How many opposition
politicians police and soldiers go kill?’
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