The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has raised an alarm over the nation’s perceived dangerous slide “into totalitarianism and anarchy” under the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration.
In a press statement signed by National Publicity Secretary Debo Ologunagba, the PDP alerted of attempts by “a cabal within the Presidency to emasculate the Institutions of Democracy in Nigeria, especially the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Judiciary.”
The party said this is evident in the “manipulation of elections” and “conflicting judgments by electoral Courts” which contradict electoral laws and regulations.
According to the statement, “These obnoxiously contradictory judgments are targeted at the PDP” to overturn elections won by the party and award victory to defeated APC candidates.
Ologunagba cited scenarios in Plateau, Zamfara, Sokoto, Kebbi and other states where the PDP claimed it was “robbed of victory through the Courts.”
The PDP spokesman warned that “this unfolding anti-democratic scenario is not only evident in the manipulation of elections but also in the conflicting judgments by electoral Courts” which he said is “a clear and present danger to the sustenance of Nigeria’s democracy.”
He called on President Bola Tinubu “to come clean by speaking out and denouncing any attempt or action that is capable of stifling democracy, the Rule of Law and muzzling of the independence of the Judiciary.”
The party urged the CJN and Appeal Court President “to step in and assert the independence of the judiciary at this critical time for the defence and sustenance of democracy.”
It charged Nigerians “to rise to the occasion, speak out and take urgent legitimate steps to defend, protect and preserve our hard-earned Democracy from the onslaught of the APC.”
