Ahead of the
November 2016 governorship election in Ondo State, officers of the
Nigerian Police Force went on rampage in the morning of Tuesday, October
18, 2016 arresting over 50 youth leaders and supporters of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo State.
According to reports, “the youth leaders
were invited by the Police from across the state for questioning at the
Police Headquarters in Akure, as law abiding citizens, they honoured
the invitation, but on getting to the police headquarters they were all
harassed and threatened to fill undertaken form and thereafter
detained.”
In his reaction, the state publicity
secretary of the PDP, Banji Okunomo, who condemned the detention of the
PDP youth leaders, said the plan of the Police in connivance with the
APC-led Federal government is to create panic and make Ondo State look
politically unsafe for the people of the state.
“Much as we are not saying that security
agencies should not perform their duties, if, especially, they find
anybody wanting in conduct or behaviour, we also want to say that any
act on the part of these security agents should be properly channeled.
“We do not indulge in violence or any
act of criminality like others. Even when we were having our internal
intrigues in the party, we have always comported ourselves.” Okunomo
said.
The party therefore called on the Police to stop harassing its members and release those in its detention.
Also condemning the development, a
socio-political group in Ondo State, Ondo Movement for Democratic
Dividends (OMDD) said it is quite unfortunate that the Police could
allow itself to be a tool of intimidating law abiding citizens.
The group in a statement issued in Akure
on Tuesday said “It is sad that the Police, who failed to arrest and
detain members of the APC who have been causing violence and brandishing
weapons across the city, threatening the peace in Ondo State in the
last two months as a result of their controversial primaries, now flex
muscle in harassing law abiding youths in the state.”
We the good people of Ondo State are
known to always stand for the truth and we will resist, through all
legitimate means, attempts by the security agencies and the APC-led
Federal government to intimidate and humiliate the good people of Ondo
State in its do or die move to capture Ondo into bondage and recession.
The group also called for the release of the detained youth leaders.
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