APC Accuses FG Of Moves to Clamp Down On Opposition

Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised the alarm over alleged plans by the Federal Government to use the security agencies, especially the DSS and the Police, to harass and intimidate the opposition with a view to decapitating it ahead of the 2015 elections.

The party warned that such a development constitutes a clear and present danger to the success of the elections.

In a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the torrent of threats being issued recently by the Minister of Police Affairs and the DSS over alleged inflammatory statements by opposition leaders is nothing but a thinly veiled attempt at cowing the opposition and destabilizing its ranks.

It said the strategy includes the 'invitation' of key opposition figures for questioning by the DSS, starting with the APC National Publicity Secretary, to be followed by arrests and detention of such figures.

APC said the impending clampdown is the PDP-led Federal Government's answer to the soaring profile of the opposition ahead of the polls, and called on local and international observers of the elections to keep a close eye on the unsavoury developments.

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