PDP RAISES ALARM OVER DETENTION OF MEMBERS IN OGUN STATE
THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State have raised the alarm over the alleged deliberate policy of the All Progressive Congress (APC) administration to hound perceived opponents to jail.
Oladipupo Adebutu, the Party’s governorship candidate in the State, also a member of House of Representatives from Remo North, lamented that the current government in Nigeria has failed to learn from the lessons of June 12 which he considers to be possibly the most free and fair elections ever held in Nigeria.
He said: “unfortunately, it now appears, it is a deliberate policy of the incumbent administration to hound perceived opponents to jail. Our rights to a choice of political association is gradually being removed as a sure way to jail is to change your party affiliation from the ruling party to the opposition party. In Kaduna State, the incumbent government willfully and deliberately destroyed assets of perceived political opponents. Today, it’s same in Ogun State. Seventeen young men and a serving state House of Assembly member were charged for murder of a man who died eight years ago but whom the police claim was killed on the 1st of June 2018.
Adebutu added that the trumped up charges were designed to intimidate and incarcerate them to the extent that they would not be able to participate in the coming elections. It is also to deter others who may want to decamp from the ruling party.
To them in Ogun State, they have a very strong attachment to June 12. And for him i.e Oladipupo in particular, he has a very strong attachment to the day that would forever mark a watershed in the political evolution, as he was a member of the third national assembly that resisted the annulment of the June 12th election to the best of their ability.
Oladipupo Adebutu, the Party’s governorship candidate in the State, also a member of House of Representatives from Remo North, lamented that the current government in Nigeria has failed to learn from the lessons of June 12 which he considers to be possibly the most free and fair elections ever held in Nigeria.
He said: “unfortunately, it now appears, it is a deliberate policy of the incumbent administration to hound perceived opponents to jail. Our rights to a choice of political association is gradually being removed as a sure way to jail is to change your party affiliation from the ruling party to the opposition party. In Kaduna State, the incumbent government willfully and deliberately destroyed assets of perceived political opponents. Today, it’s same in Ogun State. Seventeen young men and a serving state House of Assembly member were charged for murder of a man who died eight years ago but whom the police claim was killed on the 1st of June 2018.
Adebutu added that the trumped up charges were designed to intimidate and incarcerate them to the extent that they would not be able to participate in the coming elections. It is also to deter others who may want to decamp from the ruling party.
To them in Ogun State, they have a very strong attachment to June 12. And for him i.e Oladipupo in particular, he has a very strong attachment to the day that would forever mark a watershed in the political evolution, as he was a member of the third national assembly that resisted the annulment of the June 12th election to the best of their ability.
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