Odili: PDP restates call for Oshiomhole’s arrest
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has wondered why the federal government has delayed in arresting the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, for openly inciting the attack on Justice Mary Odili over the Supreme Court’s judgment on the Bayelsa state governorship election.
The PDP said it is clear that the attack on Justice Odili allegedly carried out by APC thugs is part of the plot to “intimidate, harass and cow” the judiciary and judges to do only its bidding in delivering judgments in cases involving the PDP and its members.
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The party said the APC should know that Nigerians are not deceived by the desperate efforts by its leadership to politicize the attack on Justice Odili by making flimsy and baseless allegations against the PDP, in a failed bid to divert public attention from their culpability in the attack.
It said that the APC masterminded the attack on Justice Odili, using the same agents that coordinated the attacks on the residence of Governor Diri Duoye, the burning of PDP secretariat in Bayelsa state and violent attacks on Radio Bayelsa by APC thugs.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party said it will definitely not allow the APC to drag it into politicizing these attacks.
The PDP thus, insisted that the delay in arresting Oshiomhole for questioning, after it raised the alarm last Thursday and even after hard evidence indicted him and the APC, “only goes to validate public apprehension of a huge collusion with certain agents of the Buhari Presidency to intimidate and annex the judiciary.”
The party described as distressing that the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has failed to arrest Oshiomhole after he openly instigated his party’s thugs against the Supreme Court and even declared that no governor would be sworn-in in Bayelsa, in defiance of the judgment of the Supreme Court, leading to the attacks.
The PDP charged the police not to succumb to the antics of the APC, but to immediately bring Oshiomhole to book on the attack on Justice Odili as well as the residence of Gov. Duoye and PDP secretariat in Bayelsa.
Furthermore, the party charged the judiciary not to be deterred by the APC, which seeks to subjugate it to do its bidding on cases involving the PDP, its members and other Nigerians perceived to be enemies of the APC administration.
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