Uche Secondus,
national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says a military
government is better than the current administration.
Speaking
on Wednesday at a dinner to welcome those who left the All Progressives
Congress (APC), Secondus alleged that the ruling party has foisted on the
country “a kind of military democracy”.
Senate
President Bukola Saraki and Aminu Tambuwal, governor of Sokoto, are the latest
notable politicians to defect to the PDP.
Last
week, some members of the national assembly dumped the APC for the PDP.
Secondus
said those who left APC could not watch the country slide into crisis.
“They
can not watch the country sliding into crisis as we have found ourselves today
– bloodletting, killings unabated. Government of denial, government of
frame-up, government of intimidation and harassment, a government that believe
in the feast of arms,” Secondus said.
“I
thought that one of the critical elements of democracy is lobbying and
persuasion is the greatest weapon of a democrat or a politician. We have seen
in the past few years that the APC-led government have foisted on this nation a
kind of military democracy that cannot be described. It is better for us to
have full blown military.
“The
institutions that are supposed to maintain law and order, like the one we have
witnessed as in the case of Ekiti and in the case of Benue charged with the maintenance
of law and order are the same people who are breaking this law and order. No
rule of law, court orders are not obeyed we are getting deeper and deeper into
crisis.
“These
heroes of democracy who have decided to move from the ruling party, very unusual
to stand with the people, not only PDP, they are standing with the majority of
Nigerians. The need to honour them, they are the heros of democracy. Their
decision was in the defence of democracy.”
The
chairman said there was no longer freedom in the country.
“It
is a long work to freedom. There is no longer in Nigeria. If you tell them the
truth they will tell you that it is hate speech,” he said.
“Tell
them the honest truth they will say it is fake news.”
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