PDP, Abia State Chapter, Condemns The Arrest And Detention Of Senator Enyinnaya Harcourt Abaribe:
By Sir Don Ubani; KSC, JP,
Okwubunka of Asa,
State Publicity Secretary,
PDP, Abia State.
23rd June, 2018.

The attention of the leadership and members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Abia State has been drawn to the unwarranted, humiliating and dehumanizing arrest and illegal detention of the Distinguished Senator representing Abia-South; Senator Enyinnaya Harcourt Abaribe, by personnel of the Department of State Service since yesterday, Friday, 22nd June, 2018.

The Party is more worried and suspicious by the fact that after a tortuous thorough search of Senator Abaribe's residence at Apo Legislative Quarters in Abuja; a search that found absolutely nothing incriminating against the Senator, the security personnel still went away with him and dumped him in their cell, leaving him not only incommunicado but also without assess to his Lawyers and Doctors.

This act of incivility and gross abuse of the fundamental rights of Distinguished Senator Abaribe are not only unacceptable but equally condemnable.

PDP in Abia State, therefore, calls on the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; Muhammadu Buhari, to direct, without further delay, the relevant Security Agency involved in this undemocratic invasion and erosion of the fundamental rights of Senator Abaribe to release him forthwith.

PDP in Abia State also wishes to use this opportunity to remind the President and his Party; All Progressives Congress, that descending ruthlessly on the opposition in a year proceeding a general election constitutes a threat, not only to members of the opposition but even more against constitutional democracy in Nigeria.

The Leadership of PDP in Abia State, however, urges Distinguished Senator Enyinnaya Harcourt Abaribe to take this situation with equanimity of mind, as the oppressors of vocal Nigerians who stand against violation of our democratic norms have only succeeded in making him a Hero.

State Publicity Secretary.