Akwa Ibom Govt House Invasion: Nigeria Slipping Into Dictatorship Under Buhari – PDP

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Governors, yesterday, lamented that Nigeria was sliding into dictatorship under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari as shown by recent events in the country.

Rising from its meeting held at the Bayelsa State Governor’s office, Yenagoa, the governors under the auspices of the PDP Governors Forum condemned the invasion of Akwa Ibom State Government House by operatives of the Department of the State Services (DSS).

The PDP governors led by their chairman and Governor of Ondo State, Mr. Olusegun Mimiko, in a communiqué, said that the invasion was against the spirit, ethos, values and fundamental tenets of democratic norms and tradition, more so with the existence of a duly elected and sworn in governor of the state.

“We insist that the trend must stop henceforth. No democracy survives without a viable opposition in any part of the world and we must also remember to remind the All Progressives Congress, APC that they are the real beneficiaries of the liberal democratic ethos of the PDP.

“We again advise the DSS to preoccupy itself with the task of ensuring internal security and desist from daily intimidation of members of the opposition. We implore the international community, the civil society organisations and human rights activists to call the APC-led Federal Government to order and to insist that it respects the well entrenched democratic tradition.

“We all have a duty to prevent what looks to us like a steady slide of this country into dictatorship,” the Ondo governor said.