Government Persecutes Political Enemies, Uses Agencies – APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the Federal Government (FG) of using anti-corruption agencies for the purpose of persecuting perceived political enemies. 

They claimed that the FG was using the agencies to hunt political enemies by victimising selected governors and other top political figures in the opposition camp.
It was stated on Wednesday after the APC meeting with some of the newly defected governors from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The meeting, which was held at the Kano Governor’s Lodge, was attended by several national officers and leaders of the party, led by its Interim National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, a former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd); and a former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

Akande, a former governor of Osun State, said, 
“We have watched the trend in which selected governors and other top political figures are being victimized.

“This does not augur well for a civil relationship in our body politic. It emphasises revenge over fairness and breeds malice, rancour and distrust.”

What is more he lamented that the level of corruption in the country was alarming.

He also deplored a situation where he said the Federal Government was using the police against the principles of federalism.

Akande said this action had turned the police into what he described as the “Rottweiler of the Presidency and the ruling party” and called on Nigerians to condemn the action.

On the activities of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Akande alleged that the scale of electoral fraud witnessed in both Delta and Anambra states portended grave danger for democracy.

Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Mr. Ahmed Gulak, addressing the journalists, said that the APC is a dying corrupt party. According to his words, they want the FG to stop the agencies from performing their statutory duties.
Gulak added,
“Mr. President has no constitutional power to stop the police from maintaining law and order. He cannot also stop the EFCC from looking into the books of even the Federal Government. Anybody facing EFCC or the police should not complain.

“The opposition know that the APC states are the harbinger of corruption but because they control a large section of the media, these things are downplayed.

“Nobody is asking questions. Tinubu replaced Mamora in the Senate with his wife, no questions were asked. He installed his daughter as Iyaloja despite that she is not a trader, nobody is asking questions."



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