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APC plans to clampdown on us by January, building more prisons –PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the All the All Progressives Congress (APC) of plots to begin arrest of its members from January 2018.
The party claimed that the APC had already started building more prisons for the purpose.
The new national chairman of the party, Mr. Uche Secondus, made this allegation in Abuja during the opening of a two-day retreat of the newly elected members of the PDP National Working Committee (NWC).
Secondus however asked the ruling party to continue building the prisons because they are the ones that are going to be put inside them.
“We learnt that they are building more prisons. Let them go ahead and build more. They will be the one to stay there.
“We learnt that they are coming after our members in January. Let them continue. How many people will they put in jail?
“They should stop intimidating people. They should remember that almost everybody they had put in jail wrongly came back to become President. This is because they were jailed unjustifiably. So, if they are persecuting us, let them continue. But we will not withdraw the ultimatum we gave them to quit Aso Rock in 2019,” Secondus said.
Secondus further argued that PDP and not APC is the party truly committed to fighting corruption in the country, nothing that former President Olusegun Obasanjo established the very institutions “currently waging a war against graft in the country.”
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According to him, former President Obasanjo did not spare members of the PDP while fighting corruption contrary to Muhammadu Buhari of the APC who according to him protects members of his party.
He said, “We stabilised the structure to fight corruption. Obasanjo, a PDP President, started the fight against corruption. He fought our members. But unlike now, no matter how corrupt you are, if you don’t want to be arrested, just defect to the APC,” he added.
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