The PDP has alleged that the continuous arrest and detention of its members ahead of the general elections is provocative and a direct invitation to anarchy and political crisis in the country. The party said former governors of Kaduna State, Sen. Ahmed Makarfi and Ramalan Yero, Kaduna State PDP Chairman, Chief Felix Hyat, and a former PDP state Chairman, Alhaji Yahaya Yaro Makama, had been listed for arrest before the elections.
The party demanded for the unconditional release of the Director of Media Committee of the Kaduna State PDP Governorship Campaign Organisation, Mr. Ben Bako, who has been detained by the DSS since last weekend. The Director of Media and Publicity of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisagion, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, at a press conference yesterday in Abuja, said Mr. Bako’s arrest was prelude to the “planned clampdown” on PDP campaign officials by the Buhari presidency and the APC.
Mr. Ologbondiyan explained that the aim was to instill fear in the polity, incite crisis and derail the electoral process, having realised that they were allegedly going to lose the election to the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
