The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reiterated its oft-stated position that President Muhammadu Buhari is fast turning Nigeria into a police state.
PDP spokesperson, Olisa Metuh, has been in EFCC custody since last week after he was linked to the $2.1bn meant for the procurement of arms but which was diverted to meet political ends.
APC National Legal Adviser, Victor Kwon, said in a statement on Saturday that the Buhari led federal government keeps trampling on the rule of law without let.
“We draw the attention of all Nigerians and the international community to this illegal clampdown on the opposition spokesman by the EFCC, using a purported holding charge said to have been derived from a magistrate court. Holding charge which implies ‘arrest before investigation’ instead of ‘investigation before arrest’ is clearly an aberration and abuse of judicial process which has since been declared by several courts as illegal, null and void, and of no effect as it is totally in contradiction with section 35 (1), (4), (5a) of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“The PDP is particularly worried that Metuh, since his arrest on Tuesday, is being inhumanly kept in an underground cell where he is daily threatened by officials, who we gathered, have been mounting pressure on him to accept guilt of fictitious figures and implicate PDP leaders. The public is very much aware that the EFCC Chairman has visited the Presidential villa at least twice since Metuh was arrested and detained by the commission, ostensibly to get further directives on the case.
“Our nation is now being turned into a police state with its inherent constitutional violations and infringement on rights of citizens, a scenario which poses grave danger to national stability and survival of our democracy. The PDP strongly cautions against the avoidable tension and looming political crisis over the continuous clamp-down on our leaders and particularly, the continued incarceration of our spokesperson, Chief Olisa Metuh, who was arrested a few days after he confronted the Federal Government and the APC over their dictatorial pronouncements and actions,” Kwon said.
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