August 21, 2021
Press Statement
2023: PDP Accuses APC of Using EFCC To Hound Opposition, Dissenting
Voices
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) alerts that the President Muhammadu
Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration is using
security agencies, particularly the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC), to hound and harass PDP leaders in a renewed move to
cow and weaken opposition formation ahead of the 2023 general elections.
Our party however states that no amount of intimidation, harassment and
use of anti-graft agencies to clampdown on its leaders on trump up
corruption charges, can cow or make the PDP to surrender or abdicate the
mandate already given to it by Nigerians to lead in the effort to rescue
our nation, come 2023.
The APC knows that it has been rejected by Nigerians having failed
woefully and that there is no way it can win elections under any
condition.
As such, it seeks to use the state apparatus of power to decimate and
muzzle opposition and dissenting voices and foist an anti-democratic
situation on Nigerians.
Part of this heinous plot by the APC is to use the EFCC to bully, harass
and hound PDP leaders, who are rallying Nigerians for the task ahead,
with a view to coercing them to abdicate the mandate of the people and
join the APC.
This explains why the EFCC and other security agencies have been
harassing PDP leaders such as former Senate President Bukola Saraki,
former PDP state governors, including the former governor of Abia state,
Senator Theodore Orji, former governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake
Dickson, his Kano State counterpart, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso and other
key PDP leaders, on trump up charges, while their counterparts in the
APC with similar allegations as well as others who had defected to the
APC are moving around freely.
Even corrupt officials of the APC administration, who are looting our
national treasury, are doing so freely, under Buhari’s watch.
Furthermore, our party has been made aware of plots by the APC
administration to use the EFCC to further harass outspoken PDP
chieftains in a bid to muzzle our party, force a one-party state and
deny Nigerians a voice to challenge the atrocities of the APC and its
administration.
We alert Nigerians of how many of our leaders are being harassed by
emissaries of the APC in a bid to get them to compromise their stand
against the corrupt and inept APC administration.
If the APC had done well; if it had not devastated Nigerians and brought
so much pain to the people; if the APC had managed our national
resources well instead of engaging in unbridled treasury looting,
stealing over N15 trillion naira and turning our nation into poverty
capital of the world; if APC had not compromised our national security
and threw our nation open to bandits, insurgents and terrorists, would
it not be celebrating by now instead of this plot to force the people to
submission?
In all, the APC should know that their evil enterprise cannot bend our
leaders or sway Nigerians to jettison their determination to oust the
APC from office at all levels across the country, come 2023.
Nigerians already know that they are saddled with a “failed President”
and his “failed APC” for the remaining of his second and final term
which will end in 2023.
However, the PDP calls on the EFCC Chairman to quickly insulate the
commission from APC’s manipulative enterprise, which ruined the former
leadership of the commission, especially as this clampdown cannot save
the APC in 2023.
Signed:
Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary
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