The
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has condemned what it called in a brazen display
of authoritarianism demonstrated by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC
Government in handcuffing its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, even
when the court was yet to hear his case.
This
development, the party said, betrayed “an extra-judicial, top political
witch-hunt policy of the APC, carefully designed to humiliate, embarrass and
portray PDP leaders as common criminals and set the stage to cow and decimate
opposition and perceived foes of the government”.
The
party in a statement by its national secretary, Adewale Oladipo, on Tuesday,
said “if not to mortify, dehumanize and break our National Publicity Secretary,
who has been very vocal against the APC administration, and of course to send a
signal to others critical of the government, what else would have informed the
decision to produce him in court in handcuffs, even when his case does not
border on security threat?
“Is
this an attempt to sway the court and ambush the judicial process against our
National Publicity Secretary, all because of his stance against observed
ineptitude and dictatorial tendencies of this administration?,” the statement
said.
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