Democracy Day : PDP Knocks Buhari, APC Over Clampdown of Peaceful Protesters

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has berated President Muhammadu Buhari led All Progressives Congress APC government over the clampdown of peaceful protesters. 

 The party condemned Buhari and the APC for the violent clampdown  on Nigerians who are peacefully protesting on Democracy Day by its agents. 

According to the PDP, the brutal intimidation of citizens on Democracy Day is a sacrilegious demonstration of APC’s aversion to democracy as well as its barefaced repugnance towards Nigerians, particularly in their demands for their rights.

PDP, in a statement by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan said, “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.”