PDP decries alleged attempt to frame Saraki

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says it is deeply concerned over the statement by Nigeria’s Senate President, Bukola Saraki of an alleged plot by the Police to use suspected cultists, who have been in detention, to implicate him and the Governor of Kwara State, Abdulfatah Ahmed.

The PDP in a statement on Thursday signed by Kola Ologbondiyan, its National Publicity Secretary, says it has noted Saraki’s comments that the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris is planning to settle scores with him over the Senate’s declaration that he (IGP) is unfit to hold public office.

“The PDP is alarmed by the trend of brazen assaults on the institutions of democracy, particularly the National Assembly and the judiciary, in addition to unrelenting attacks on dissenting voices, especially as we approach the 2019 general elections,” the party said.

The party said it had before now alerted Nigerians of plots to arrest, harass, detain dissenting voices and opposition members on trumped-up charges, as well as intimidate institutions of democracy and pave the way for a one-party state in our country.

“Nigerians will further recall the invasion of the Senate chambers by thugs, who disrupted proceedings and carted away the mace. Only last Friday, hoodlums violently attacked a High Court in Rivers state with guns, in a bid to stop the judiciary from making pronouncements on an electoral matter,” the party said.

It urged the National Assembly to defend the nation’s democracy by sparing no energy in pursuing its resolution of engaging President Muhammadu Buhari on these assaults, in addition to putting in motion, all legislative instruments available to it, to curtail all excesses in government before the situation finally gets out of hand.