The All Progressives Congress (APC) has
nothing to do with the reported police invitation of Deputy Senate
President Ike Ekweremadu,the party said yesterday.
It described a statement issued by
Ekweremadu’s party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as “an outlandish
statement containing all sorts of imaginary claims.”
In a statement by APC National Publicity
Secretary Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said it neither wrote a
petition to the police nor is it aware that any petition was written
against the Deputy Senate President.
”However, if, as the PDP claims, the
petition concerns alleged altering of the Senate’s Standing Rules on the
process of electing Presiding Officers, that is a clear case of forgery
which the police have a duty to investigate. Questioning the right of
the police to carry out their duties in this regard amounts to
intimidating the security agency.
”Forgery is a crime that is being
regularly investigated by the police, and it beggars belief that such
investigation will now be interpreted to mean that Nigeria is descending
into dictatorship or that democracy and the enjoyment of personal
freedoms are now endangered. These claims by the scaremongering PDP are
far-fetched and preposterous,” it said.
The APC said if indeed there is a
petition against Senator Ekweremadu, he should gladly heed the
invitation by the police so he can clear his name, adding that no one is
above the law.
”President Muhammadu Buhari has
repeatedly said that at every point, the law must be supreme and
everyone must respect the law, if the nation’s democratic system is to
survive. Extrapolating a police invitation of anyone, no matter his
status, to mean the onset of dictatorship is itself an invitation to
lawlessness and anarchy, which permeated the long but ineffective rule
of the PDP,” the party said.
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