Date Published: 09/21/11

Lagos ACN warns on harassment and intimidation of Members by Security Agents

The Lagos State Chapter has condemned in the strongest terms the intimidation, harassment and humiliation officially meted to ACN supporters and sympathizers traveling to Abuja to witness the trial of our leader Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu by the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB.

In a release signed by the State Publicity Secretary Mr. Joe Igbokwe the Party “says the action of the over zealous Security Agents working in tandem with PDP to rubbish and humble the opposition is not acceptable in a democracy. What is wrong is wrong and what is right is right”

“We note that the sad incident which took place in Lokoja is reminding us what transpired in Nigeria in the days of IBB and Abacha which political commentators christened   the days of the locusts ”

The Party says” It pains us to the marrows that the PDP-controlled Security Agents are still applying 19 th   century solutions to the 21 st  century problems. This is primitive, retrogressive and barbaric”

“Freedom of press speech and expression is guaranteed in any know democratic nation and Nigeria is no exception. What we expected from the country’s Security Agents in Abuja is to remain impartial and to provide security by making sure that nobody causes a breach of the peace. PDP does not own the Security Agencies in Nigeria . 150 million Nigerians including ACN own them”

“We insist that the trial of our National Leader Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu five years after he left office is politically motivated. The federal government controlled PDP has not forgiven the Servant Leader Bola Ahmed Tinubu for causing the political earthquake in the South West and beyond in 2011 general elections”

“Those who lost power in Edo, Ondo, Ekiti and Osun via the election tribunals and those who lost power in Ogun, Oyo State via the ballot boxes in 2011 are still crying, rolling on the ground and pleading with president Jonathan to do something about Bola Ahmed Tinubu otherwise they will go into political oblivion”

“The Party warns that PDP is traveling on the road that is familiar to us and we will not be intimidated. George Orwell reminds us that the political language from conservatives to anarchists is designed to make lies sound truthful, murder respectable and give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. We advise PDP and the nation’s Security Agents to learn from history”