President
Muhammadu Buhari, the judiciary, the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) and the Department of State Services (DSS) yesterday
came under fresh attack from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) over the party’s recent electoral reverses in Rivers and Akwa Ibom
States.
The PDP accused the Buhari administration of
politicising and compromising critical institutions, including the
judiciary, DSS and INEC, for the purpose of subverting democracy in the
country.
The party’s national caucus, rising from an emergency
meeting in Abuja on Thursday, where it reviewed the judgements of the
Akwa Ibom and Rivers State Election Petition Tribunals, said the
behaviour of the President and the ruling All Progressives Congress
(APC) constitutes a huge threat to the nation’s democracy and danger to
its peace, unity and progress.
It did not spare the National Assembly which it claimed was being intimidated by the executive arm of government.
In
a communique issued at the end of the meeting, the PDP National
Secretary, Prof. Wale Oladipo, said the APC-led government has eroded
the ‘gains’ recorded by the PDP in its 16 years in the saddle.
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