The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Uche Secondus says the All Progressive Congress (APC) led government is building new prisons in some states to keep members of opposition parties. Mr. Secondus stated this on Tuesday in Abuja at the opening of a two-day retreat for members of the newly elected National Working Committee of the party. He warned the APC government to desist from persecuting members of the PDP because of their refusal to defect to the ruling party.
He further urged the government to redirect the funds budgeted for the construction of prisons to other development projects or risk being the occupiers in the future. “We learnt that they are building more prisons. Let them go ahead and build more. They will be the one to stay there. “We learnt that they are coming after our members in January. Let them continue. How many people will they put in jail?
“They should stop intimidating people. They should remember that almost everybody they had put in jail wrongly came back to become President.
“This is because they were jailed unjustifiably. So, if they are persecuting us, let them continue. But we will not withdraw the ultimatum we gave them to quit Aso Rock in 2019.”
The Chairman of the PDP berated the APC for directing its war against corruption at opposition members stressing that the PDP was more clinical and objective in its fight against corruption.
“We stabilized the structure to fight corruption. Obasanjo, a PDP President, started the fight against corruption. He fought our members. But unlike now, no matter how corrupt you are, if you don’t want to be arrested, just defect to the APC,” he added.
