ADC condemns invasion, blockage of complex

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has cautioned the federal government and its security agencies against further abuse of democratic institutions.
Though the party lauded the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo for swiftly sacking the Director General of the Department of State Security Service (SSS), Lawal Musa Daura, but it was quick to say that his removal was not enough because it may not deter others with such tendency from indulging in their abusive fancy.
The party said the APC federal government desperate to cling on to power in spite of its dismal performance since its inception more than three years ago.
“The APC knows that the Nigerian electorate have rejected it and its government of negative change.
So, it has reverted to adoption of intimidation measures to beat other arms of government to forceful submission as well as to frighten the opposition into political apathy or oblivion.
“We, in ADC, want Nigerians to democratically and constitutionally resist any attempt by the ruling party to convert the nation’s democracy to autocracy.
Nigeria’s democracy has come to stay.
Nigerians should not allow the self-serving APC leaders to truncate it”, a statement signed by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Anayo Arinze said.
The party recalled that two weeks both homes of the Senate President Saraki and his deputy Senator Ike Ekweremadu were invaded and barricaded with impunity by men of the Nigeria Police who were alleged to be on a mission of aiding the APC members to embark on illegal change of leadership in the senate.
It regretted that rather than condemn the assault the APC government had pleaded alibi and denied knowledge of the heinous acts, adding that this tendency is detrimental to democracy.
It would be recalled that the National Assembly Complex was siege by the men of the SSS on Tuesday, a situation to generated global outrage and eventually the sack of its Director General, Lawal Musa Daura by the Acting President, Prof.
Yemi Osinbajo.