PDP Demands Unconditional Release Of Chieftain

– Ologbondiyan said that Nigerians will recall that last Thursday, October 31, 2019, the PDP alerted of the heinous plots by the APC and outgoing Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state to clampdown on key leaders in the state

– We have called you today to notify Nigerians that the APC has commence the clampdown and punishment of innocent citizens of Kogi state

– The APC, out of desperation, has started framing and arresting innocent Nigerians

 

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded the unconditional release of its head of security in Dekina local government, Mr Edeh Abutu who the party claimed was abducted by agents of Governor Yahaya Bello and the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The PDP spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, made this known at a media briefing in Abuja on Sunday, describing the gun running charges leveled against Abutu as trumped.

Ologbondiyan said: “Nigerians will recall that last Thursday, October 31, 2019, the PDP alerted of the heinous plots by the APC and outgoing Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state to clampdown on key leaders in the state as well as unleash violence on the people, for their decision not to vote Yahaya Bello back to office.

“We have called you today to notify Nigerians that the APC has commence the clampdown and punishment of innocent citizens of Kogi state, having realized that the people are not ready to change their resolve to kick out the incompetent, corrupt and disdainful Bello administration.

“The APC, out of desperation, has started framing and arresting innocent Nigerians, harassing and victimizing women and youths, blocking peoples’ means of livelihood and issuing threats on the citizenry, all in the failed bid to inject crisis, derail the electoral process and manipulate the outcome of the polls.

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“Only yesterday, the APC, using, some hoodlums and compromised security agents, led by Bello’s illegitimate deputy governor, Edward Onoja, arrested the PDP head of security in Dekina Local Government, Mr. Edeh Abutu, over trumped up charges of possession of firearm.

“It is instructive to state that Abutu had been threatened with arrest and frame-up, several times, by the APC; attacked and harassed on numerous occasions before he was finally framed and abducted by the APC after he pulled a gargantuan crowd for our governorship campaign rally in Dekina.

“The PDP has been made aware of how APC thugs invaded his area of residence, traumatized and harassed citizens with gun shots and abducted Mr. Abutu to an unknown destination, after which the illegal deputy governor turned himself into the spokesman of the police by rushing to falsely claim that he (Abutu) made some confessional statement of being in possession of firearms.

“Information at our disposal shows that at the time the illegal deputy governor was publicizing his fabricated confessional statement, there was no such record with the Police in Dekina or the State Police Command.

“Our party has also been informed of how the abductors, coordinated by an APC Zonal Chairman, took their victims to the Governor’s Lodge in Dekina as well as how the illegal deputy governor has been mounting pressure on the Commissioner of Police to adopt his fabricated statement against their victims”.

The PDP further said it has been made aware of plots to frame-up more of its leaders with allegations of illegal possession of firearms, sponsoring of violence, training of thugs among others, as an attempt to intimidate the citizens as well as cover APC’s violence machination against the people of the state.