The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Department of State Services (DSS) to immediately release its presidential campaign spokesperson, Buba Galadima.
A statement by Uche Secondus, PDP National Chairman described Galadima as a patriot, insisting that he has committed no crime.
Galadima, a firece critic of the Muhammadu Buhari administration, was reported to have been arrested by the secret police in Abuja on Sunday.
Reacting to the development on Sunday, Secondus accused the governing APC of orchestrating his arrest, adding that it is the ‘latest in a pattern of anti-democratic actions by the Muhammadu Buhari administration’.
The statement reads: “The nation is currently boiling with the deaths caused by thugs of the All Progressives Congress. Not one of these thugs has been arrested by the DSS. The nation was embarrassed by drone images of bullion vans laden with cash driving into the home of the National Leader of the APC and no action has been taken by the law enforcement authorities. Yet a patriot and pro-democracy activist is arrested.
“We cannot be hoodwinked by the puppeteering of the DSS by the APC. It is obviously no coincidence that the APC Presidential Campaign Council called for the arrest of Mr. Galadima at 12 noon today (Sunday the 24th of February, 2019) and the arrest was duly effected by the DSS an hour later.
“Nigeria will not be cowed. We have voted for democracy and as a nation, we will not be taken back to Egypt by the discredited blame centred anti democratic forces who have turned a once thriving economy into the world headquarters for extreme poverty.
“I call for the immediate release of Mr. Buba Galadima by the Department of State Security, even as I remind the DSS and other security agencies, that their oath of allegiance was sworn to Nigeria and not to the All Progressive Congress or President Muhammadu Buhari”.
OWEDE AGBAJILEKE, Abuja
