Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party have faulted the handcuffing of the National Publicity of their party, Mr. Olisa Metuh, to court.
They stated that the All Progressives Congress regime was a step away from what they called a full-blown fascism.
The PDP Governors’ Forum said the action was meant to deride not only Metuh but the former ruling party as well as cast the party in a bad light before Nigerians as a party of corrupt individuals even when some fraud suspects, who are members of the PDP, had yet to be convicted by any competent court.
In a statement on Thursday in Abuja by the Coordinator of the Forum, Mr. Osaro Onaiwu, the governors said the APC regime had yet to learn from history, which it believed informed its “banal exhibitionism and Telemundo antics of subjecting accused persons like Metuh to inhuman treatment.”
The Forum added, “The only reasonable conclusion we have reached is that the anti-corruption agencies and other institutions of state have allowed themselves to be dictated to by a single vindictive authority, which takes pleasure in using power anyhow and in any way in gross abuse of the constitution, African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and human liberty.
“The handcuffing of the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP exemplifies a terrible decay of power by the APC regime, which sees itself as bigger than the democratic state, Nigeria, which brought it to power.
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