Uche Secondus, national chairman
of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says a military government is better
than the current administration.
Speaking on Wednesday at a dinner
to welcome those who left the All Progressives Congress (APC), Secondus alleged
that the ruling party has foisted on the country “a kind of military
democracy”.
Senate President Bukola Saraki
and Aminu Tambuwal, governor of Sokoto, are the latest notable politicians to
defect to the PDP.
Last week, some members of the
national assembly dumped the APC for the PDP.
Secondus said those who left APC
could not watch the country slide into crisis.
“They can not watch the country
sliding into crisis as we have found ourselves today – bloodletting, killings
unabated. Government of denial, government of frame-up, government of
intimidation and harassment, a government that believe in the feast of arms,”
Secondus said.
“I thought that one of the
critical elements of democracy is lobbying and persuasion is the greatest
weapon of a democrat or a politician. We have seen in the past few years that
the APC-led government have foisted on this nation a kind of military democracy
that cannot be described. It is better for us to have full blown military.
“The institutions that are
supposed to maintain law and order, like the one we have witnessed as in the
case of Ekiti and in the case of Benue charged with the maintenance of law and
order are the same people who are breaking this law and order. No rule of law,
court orders are not obeyed we are getting deeper and deeper into crisis.
“These heroes of democracy who
have decided to move from the ruling party, very unusual to stand with the
people, not only PDP, they are standing with the majority of Nigerians. The
need to honour them, they are the heros of democracy. Their decision was in the
defence of democracy.”
The chairman said there was no
longer freedom in the country.
“It is a long work to freedom.
There is no longer in Nigeria. If you tell them the truth they will tell you
that it is hate speech,” he said.
“Tell them the honest truth they
will say it is fake news.”
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