The Senator representing Abia
South Senatorial district, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has said that the ruling All
Progressives Congress (APC) is doing the same things it accused the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) of doing, and even worse.
Abaribe stated this on Saturday
during a reception held in his honour in Aba, Abia state.
“The same thing that the APC
accused PDP of doing, they are doing more and worse, the PDP Government was
paying around N800 billion in subsidy when the fuel pump price per liter was
N85, now the fuel pump price per liter is N145 yet APC is paying N1.4 trillion,
so they should tell us how.
“There is no need calling it a
name, under-recovery, what is wrong is wrong, even the change of name does not
change it,” he said.
Abaribe’s comments came days
after he was arrested and eventually released from the Department of State
Services (DSS) custody.
He has now stated that he was incarcerated
for doing nothing.
“The reason that was given when
they came to search my residence is that I was accused of being a sponsor of
the proscribed organization called IPOB.
“Those who accused me have done
their search and since then, I have not heard anything from them, which means
that certainly have not been able to find a reason for the arrest and
detention,” he said.
Abaribe further accused the APC
of attempting to arrest all those in the opposition.
“My party, the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) during the Ekiti State Rally sounded it loud and clear, that what
the APC government wants to do is to take everybody out of circulation by
arresting all of us.
“Of course, it is very sad for
Nigeria, because PDP has been here for 16 years and all manner of people
criticized the party and they were not arrested, so APC government should learn
from us on how to manage criticism.
“People are being killed
everywhere in Nigeria, and somebody is telling us that we should not blame him.
They started by saying that it was the Libyans and then they turned around and
said it was because of the laws that were passed.
“When we pointed out to them that
the people were being killed in areas where there were no laws passed, they
turned around and said, please try to live with your neighbours.
“When we said no, and questioned
who are our neighbors were, they said, oh no, what you have to do is to pray.
We have also prayed, and I prayed over there where they kept me, and I said “Oh
God, our help in ages past” who has always helped us at every perilous moment
like this, Our God will also save Nigeria, and we cannot have the APC
Government continue.
“Let them wait for us, we are coming.
Their arrest and detention will not make us stop saying the truth. I am a
patriot, a patriotic Nigeria, and I will stand by this country,” the Senator
added.
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