Speak-up On Missing Party Chair – PDP Charges Security Agencies
BY SEGUN ADEBAYO, ABUJA – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged top echelon of Nigerian security agencies to urgently speak out on gunmen’s abduction of the opposition Party Chairman in Okene Local Government Area of Kogi State, Musa Adelabu.
The PDP said Adelabu’s abduction by men reportedly clad in military camouflage from his home last Saturday was of grave security concern to the Party and his distressed family.
It said the situation is quite worrying given that the abductors allegedly told his family that they were acting on “orders from above”.
In a statement pointedly aimed at the Nigerian Army, Nigeria Police and the Department of State Services (DSS), the party said it was unacceptable that the security agencies had kept mum over the abduction, even as his party and family had continued to demand his release.
The statement signed by PDP spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan in Abuja yesterday, said; “This situation has heightened apprehension of high-level partisan conspiracy to use some compromised security operatives against the opposition in Kogi State, in a desperate bid to foist the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the failed Governor Yahaya Bello on the people of Kogi State.
“Already, there is an ominous tension in Kogi State following intelligence reports filtering into the public domain that our local government chairman is being tortured by his captors in a secret facility where his life is now in great danger.”
The main opposition party warned that; “Such provocative situation is capable of sparking off serious crisis in Kogi State, which location as gateway and convergence state means a lot of dire consequences for our nation, in the event of any disturbance in the area.
“It is, therefore, unacceptable that the security high command is not forthcoming with concrete statement or decisive action to secure his release despite calls by our party and the people of Kogi State.”
Describing as unacceptable the seeming aloofness of security agencies in handling the issue, the statement said; “The PDP, therefore, calls on President Muhammadu Buhari, as the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces to address his parade and ensure the release of our Kogi PDP leader.”