June 12, 2021

Press Statement

June 12: PDP Condemns APC, Buhari’s Clampdown on Peaceful Protesters

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) condemns, in the strongest term ever, the violent clampdown by agents of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Muhamamdu Buhari on Nigerians who are peacefully protesting on Democracy Day.

The party describes the brutal clampdown on citizens on Democracy Day as a sacrilegious demonstration of APC’s aversion to democracy as well as its barefaced repugnance towards Nigerians, particularly in their demands for their rights.

It is awkward that the APC and President Buhari, who were allowed their freedom when they protested in 2014, would turn around to subject Nigerians to actions of inhumanity including the use of firearms against the people, as being witnessed today.

It is instructive to note that President Buhari, in his supposed Democracy Day address, failed to rein in his security operatives despite the cautions by the PDP. This places the culpability for whatever befalls Nigerians, in the face of the violent attacks by security agencies, on the APC as well as Mr. President's desk.

The PDP is not surprised that in his over 20 minutes speech, Mr. President never made any commitment towards upholding the democratic tenets of free speech, freedom of expression, freedom of association and right to peaceful protest, as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution and our statutes, from which he, as APC candidate, drew huge benefit in 2014.

Our party is cataloguing all the infringements which the APC and President Buhari are rudely imposing on Nigerians and we urge all global democratic institutions to take note of the violent infringements and clampdown on democracy in Nigeria by the APC.

Tinubuadvocate:
Useless party they are sponsor hoodlums to disrupt government plans.

Tinubuadvocate:
Useless party they are sponsor hoodlums to disrupt government plans.

Kwanza:

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onez:
BUHARIMUSTGO. Buhari should calculate his next 2 year salary, so we can pay him off. One man is not greater than 200 million people

Tinubuadvocate:
Useless party they are sponsor hoodlums to disrupt government plans.

Bigpat:
I wonder why PDP thinks when they talk they will be heard, when they are the same and are no better, looking for opportunities to discredit themselves, the protest is already a failure, if these Politicians being protested against, one of the parties can still talk as if they are supporting the protesters, instead of hiding in shame and be thinking of how to defend or remedy the situation they put Nigeria, it shows Parties don't even know that the protest was staged because of them. If the Police were Politicians, endsars wouldn't have succeeded, the protest would have been watery as this protest against bad governance, there would have been enough money to cool down the tension, Nigerians are hungry, little things entices them, the Politicians already knows there weaknesses, that is why the Politicians succeeded, that is why PDP can still talk. Many died due to bad governance. The Politicians are lucky the Police did not allow hoodlums to hijack the protest, by killing them and burning their houses they built with looted funds. They are lucky the protest was a failure

Tinubuadvocate:
Useless party they are sponsor hoodlums to disrupt government plans.

Jostoman:
All this people that are ordering police to be arresting peaceful protesters also protest against Jonathan government o in 2015 when we still have freedom of speech in Nigeria but it is now a crime to protest against them.