• PDP asks U.S. Democrats, Republicans to check abuse of democracy
Personnel of the Department of State Security (DSS) last night laid
siege to the private residence of the immediate past National Security
Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki, in the Asokoro district of Abuja and his
family home in Sokoto. .
Sources told The Guardian that the DSS personnel arrived at the Abuja
residence of Dasuki in four Hilux vans, telling the soldiers on guard
that they came to see the former NSA for undisclosed official reasons.
The source confirmed that the operatives had successfully carried out
a cordon-and-search operation in his father’s compound in Sokoto,
adding that the former NSA “refused to let them even as they were
threatening to force themselves in.”
Some other reports last night claimed that Dasuki had been arrested
and whisked away. There was no independent confirmation at press time.
DSS, NSA and government officials were not willing to comment on the matter at press time.
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday asked the
Republican and the Democratic parties in the United States to closely
monitor President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration with a view to
checking what it called “sharp violation of democratic principles in
Nigeria.”
The opposition party, which met separately with the U.S. National
Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute
(IRI) in Abuja, also threatened to reject the outcome of any election
conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) under
the leadership of Aminu Zakari.
During the visit of the PDP to the two institutes, which was led by
the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, it was alleged
that Nigeria’s democracy was being endangered by desperate political
moves to use the country’s electoral commission to score political
gains. Metuh claimed that the political scheming by government had put
too much pressure on Nigeria’s democracy.
Also, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), a
pro-democracy non-governmental organization, in a statement last night,
condemned the reported invasion and “gestapo operations at the homes of
Dasuki on the alleged directives from the Presidency.”
National Coordinator of the group, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, and
National Media Affairs Director, Miss Zainab Yusuf, who co-signed the
statement, called on Buhari to respect the democratic and civilised
tenets of the rule of law and follow constitutional format in redressing
alleged abuse of authority by any top government official in the
immediate past administration.
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