Akwa-Ibom: APC confirms party’s involvement in invasion, Tribunal arm-twisting, PDP insists

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) says the APC has confirmed its culpability in a number of anti-democratic actions of government agencies lately, particularly the invasion of Akwa-Ibom State government house and interferences in the activities of that state’s election tribunal.

The PDP said in bringing out himself, through a press conference on Monday to attempt to explain the unlawful actions of the DSS, the APC spokesman, Lai Mohammed, succeeded in confirming that the ruling party and the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration were behind the invasion and hounding of election officials to compromise the Akwa-Ibom governorship election tribunal and take over the state.

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, in a statement on Monday said it had noted the weak attempt by the APC to defend the indefensible, stating that only “a desperate attempt at political shoplifting would drive the APC to engage in a miscarried effort to cover its culpability, by seeking to defend the condemnable actions of the DSS, a security and statutory apolitical organisation, which has its internal system of public communication.

“Our take is that the truth may be hidden for sometime, but it has a way of expressing itself to shame the guilty. We ask, what other reasons, other than a desperate cover up, would push a spokesman of a political party to stand in the gap to explain away the actions of the DSS when the security organization, has its own spokesperson and existing system of public communication?

“Is this not a confirmation of the fact that the DSS, under the direct command of an APC member, Alhaji Lawal Kaura, as director-general, has since been politically annexed and working in cahoots s with the leadership of the APC in its illegal operations in Akwa-Ibom and other PDP states?”