The Peoples Democratic Party has called on the Nigerian military not to allow itself to be dragged into partisan politics.
It
said that the military should listen to the call by the Deputy President
of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu that they should desist from
endangering the nation’s democracy.
The
PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola
Ologbodiyan in Abuja , on Saturday said it had watched the full video of
Ekweremadu’s contribution on the floor of the Senate several times and
saw nothing that could have warranted the statement issued by the
Defence Headquarters on the matter.
Ologbondiyan
faulted the Defence Headquarter’s claim that Ekweremadu’s “statement
may appear cautionary and sincere in the atmosphere of discourse, it is
however derogatory to the army used in the expression and by extension
to the armed forces of Nigeria”.
He
said, “The PDP holds the institution of the Nigerian military in high
esteem and we advise that it should not allow itself to be dragged into
desperate attempts by the All Progressives Congress administration to
criminalise every contrary view or attempt to call it to order.
“Every
student of Nigeria’s history knows that executive excesses such as
sponsored political violence, intimidation of opposition and dissent
voices, human rights abuses, disrespect for court orders and disregard
for the separation of powers and rule of law, as we have today in
Nigeria, have always been the bane of the nation’s democracy.
“Nigerians
are aware of the numerous flagrant disobedience to court orders by the
APC-led administration as well as the harassment, arrest, detention and
media trial of perceived political opponents of the government on the
flimsiest trumped up charges, while established cases of corruption by
the Presidency cabal are swept under the carpet.
“Nigerians
saw when Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso was prevented from visiting his home
state, Kano; how the house belonging to Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi was
pulled down by an APC government in Kaduna State and how a meeting by
Senator Shehu Sani and other politicians from the State, who have
political disagreement with established APC interest was visited with
horror.
“They
also watched with dismay as a full squadron of the police Special
Anti-Robbery Squad laid siege on the sacred ground of the court to
arrest Senator Dino Melaye, who was arraigned by the police over his
reported attempt on his life."
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