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Ekweremadu Raid: Buhari Govt Casting Wicked Shadow on Democracy —PDP

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8 years ago

May 27, 2017

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the recent raid by police operatives on Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu’s guest house in Abuja as “casting wicked shadow on democracy”.

The PDP Senators Caucus stated this in a statement by its spokesman, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe.

Abaribe described the Police action as “unwarranted, unacceptable and a deliberate attempt to muzzle the opposition.”

The report said:

“The police on Friday raided the National Assembly guest house in Abuja assigned to the use of the Deputy Senate President Senator Ekweremadu.

“The police was said to have claiming that a whistleblower tipped them off that Ekweremadu hid arms and money in the property.”

Elombah.com had, on Friday, reported that the home of Senator Ekweremadu was raided by security operatives.

Meanwhile, Ekweremadu had, on Wednesday, May 3, alerted that there is ongoing plot by Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crime Commission [EFCC] to plant huge sum of money and other valuables in his guest house in Enugu.

Abaribe also blasted the police over claims that they acted on whistle blower tip off.

The report continued: “[The] failed Gestapo-like operation was nothing but a smokescreen to cover up a carefully orchestrated plot to intimidate Senator Ekweremadu and by so doing cow the opposition from pointing out the failings of the government of the day.”

“The raid said to have been ordered by the Inspector General of police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, on a property owned by the National Assembly was a willful affront on democracy.

“We had raised alarm on this plot not too long ago and now they have carried out the assignment only to reach a dead end, to the embarrassment of the police and other anti-democratic forces bent on casting a wicked shadow on our fledgling democracy.

“We of the Senate PDP Caucus will never be intimidated or cowed in discharging our constitutional mandate of providing a responsible opposition.

“Is it not an irony that the raid in the National Assembly guest house is coming on the eve of the democracy day anniversary?

“A raid on a property of another arm of government is a dangerous continuation of attack on the institutions that effects the needed checks on the excesses of the executive.

“It cast an ominous sign and this must stop”, the statement concluded.

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