ABUJA – Disturbed by concerted efforts by the All Progressive Congress led Federal Government to emasculate them, Peoples Democratic Party legislators in the Senate yesterday, withdrew their support for President Mohammed Buhari.
In a press briefing through Deputy Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Emmanuel Bwacha shortly after the PDP caucus meeting, they condemned in “totality, the orchestrated plot to remove the President of Senate and his Deputy, through an illegal means”.
They chorused that the deployment of State instruments of coercion to intimidate an independent arm of government like the legislature is now a major threat to the survival of our democracy.
“The glaring witch hunt of perceived opposition elements in the polity is invitation to anarchy.
The war against corruption should not be selective, must be fought with sincerity and not the politics that is being played now with ‘war against corruption’.
We therefore condemn in strong terms the sentiments displayed fighting corruption such as freezing of account of the Ekiti State governor, is clearly a political with hunt.
Since the war against corruption has devolved into probing campaign funds, it should be extended to all parties, APC inclusive.
The PDP Senate Caucus therefore wish to warn the Executive arm of government to act with caution on matters that have the potency to subvert our democracy.
The Executive must therefore desist from these acts of lawlessness that are only typical in a military dictatorship.
The causes therefore wish to advise the APC led government to concentrate on the existing economic and security challenges that are threatening our survival as a nation.
Finally, the PDP caucus wish to reiterate that we will no longer cooperate with the APC government until they cease the belligerent attitude towards PDP members”, they continued.
