2019 Elections: FG plans to imprison 50 PDP members to wreck the party – Spokesman

FG plans to wreck PDP by imprisoning its members, ahead of the 2019 elections.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called attention to the alleged persecution by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) government led by President Muhammadu Buhari.

In a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, the PDP has accused the Buhari-led administration of planning to imprison 50 of its members, before 2017 runs out, in the name of tackling corruption.

Adeyeye stated that five PDP members have already been arrested and detained unlawfully by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

He said “The latest needless onslaught against our party members is the plan by the APC government at the centre, to incarcerate 50 members of our party before the end of this year, with a view to using their arrests to deceive Nigerians that the  failed anti-corruption war is still on course.

“Already, five members of our party have been illegally arrested and detained by EFCC without any charge preferred against them.

“Who the rest 45 members to be picked up are, we cannot say in the immediate.

“However, we are by no means scared of the persecution by the Buhari administration as we are sure that daylight is about to break, after the dark night of the APC administration.

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Adeyeye accused the APC administration of  trying to wreck the PDP, ahead of the 2019 general elections.

“The current wave of arrests, therefore, has nothing to do with the failed anti-corruption war but everything with 2019 elections.

“Having failed on all its major election planks and with nothing to show for its over 30 months in office, the APC government has come to the conclusion that the only way to prevent its inevitable defeat at the polls in 2019 is to hound, harass, intimidate and suppress members of our party into submission.

“However, we wish to state clearly that irrespective of what the APC government do in an attempt at bringing the PDP down to its knees, we shall remain irrepressible and will not bow to any tyranny.

“The APC has already thrown away its chances in the 2019 elections by its non-performance.

“No amount of intimidation and harassment of the opposition will improve its fortunes.

“We call on all men and women of goodwill to rise up to challenge the invidious attempt of the APC government to turn Nigeria into a gestapo state and undermine our hard-earned democracy on the altar of political desperation.”

Meanwhile, former Ogun state governor and PDP national chairmanship aspirant, Gbenga Daniel has also accused the ruling parting of persecuting PDP members.