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THE opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused the ruling All Progressives’ Congress, APC, of recruiting a killer to eliminate perceived political opponents.
Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, November 19, Olisa Metuh, PDP national publicity secretary, claimed that the attack on Ike Ekweremadu, deputy Senate president, on Tuesday, November 17, was part of the plan by the ruling party to use violent means to muzzle opposition to facilitate President Muhammadu Buhari’s alleged 2019 re-election bid.
Metuh said: “The APC leaders have not hidden their bitterness and resentment towards Senator Ekweremadu, whose offense is the privilege of being elected as deputy Senate president, in line with the Standing Rules of the Senate and provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
He said intelligence report available to the party had shown that Ekweremadu was not an isolated target as other prominent leaders of the PDP, such as Bello Haliru Mohammed, acting chairman of the party Board of Trustees; Uche Secondus, acting national president; Adewale Oladipo, national secretary; members of the National Working Committee; Godswill Akpabio, Senate minority leader; Leo Ogor, House minority leader, among others had also been pencilled down for assassination.
Metuh alleged that the killer squad had been established to wipe off strong opposition, “deeming such a service to the president.” According to him, the killer squad “has key marksmen recruited from within and outside the country with directives to trail, track down and hit strategic opposition elements and instil fear among the PDP members.”
The party also alerted the international community of the grave consequences of alleged actions of the APC-led federal government urging it to hold the Presidency responsible for any harm that might befall any of the PDP leaders.
— Nov 30, 2015 @ 01:00 GMT
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