Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, has asked
President Buhari to prevail on the police to stop
intimidating members of the opposition party, PDP,
particularly those in Edo state who are meant to go to
the polls this Saturday to elect a new governor.
In a statement signed by his media aide, Uche
Anichukwu, Ekweremadu accused the police of
arbitrarily arresting and intimidating some PDP
members and supporters.
He urged President Buhari to urgently intervene and
maintain the standard of a free and fair election that
was established by the PDP before they lost to APC
during the last election.
“I am deeply distressed by the development,
not just because I am a member of the PDP,
but more importantly, because the PDP had
taken our electoral process beyond where it is
being dragged back to today. The greatest gift
of democracy, which makes other blessings of
democracy feasible, is the inalienable right of
the people to elect their leaders of their own
freewill in a free, fair, and credible electoral
process that must be devoid of all forms of
intimidation. As a beneficiary of the electoral
reforms and policy of non-interference in the
electoral process, exemplified by the immediate
past PDP administration, led by former
President Goodluck Jonathan, I expect the
APC-led federal government to immediately
call the security agencies to order. If the
APC-led FG cannot improve on the electoral
process, I expect them to, at least, maintain
the standard set by the PDP, “he said.
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