Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have described the handcuffing of the National Publicity Secretary Olisa Metuh, as a step away from full blown fascism by the All Progressives Congress regime.
The PDP Governors Forum on Thursday, said the action was designed to ridicule Metuh and also paint the members of the party as corrupt individuals.
In a statement put out by the coordinator of the forum, Osaro Onaiwu on Thursday in Abuja, the party stated that the APC-led administration was yet to learn from history.
“The only reasonable conclusion we have reached is that the anti-corruption agencies and other institutions of state have allowed themselves to be dictated to by a single vindictive authority which takes pleasure in using power anyhow and in anyway in gross abuse of the constitution, African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and human liberty.”
“The cuffing of the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP exemplifies a terrible decay of power by the APC regime which sees itself bigger than the democratic state, Nigeria, which brought it to power.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the Forum is not against the anti-corruption mantra of the present regime of President Muhammadu Buhari, but we insist it must be within the ambit of our constitution and appropriate laws. Any other means is a descent into fascism with its attendant consequences in the long run.”
