The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised
the alarm over the plan by the Federal Government
to use the security agencies, especially the DSS
and the Police, to harass and intimidate the
opposition with a view to decapitating it ahead of
the 2015 elections.
In a statement, Wednesday , by its National
Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party
said the torrent of threats being issued recently by
the Minister of Police Affairs and the DSS, over
alleged inflammatory statements by opposition
leaders, is nothing but a thinly-veiled attempt at
cowing the opposition and destabilizing its ranks.
It said the strategy includes the ‘invitation’ of key
opposition figures for questioning by the DSS,
starting with the APC National Publicity Secretary,
to be followed by arrests and detention of such
figures.
APC said the impending clampdown is the PDP-
led Federal Government’s answer to the soaring
profile of the opposition ahead of the polls, and
called on local and international observers of the
elections to keep a close eye on the unsavoury
developments, which constitute a clear and present
danger to the success of the elections.
”The Minister of Police Affairs said publicly that he
has already directed the Inspector-General of
Police as well as the DSS to arrest anyone who
makes inflammatory statements ahead of the 2015
elections, and then went ahead to castigate the
APC, thus exposing the real reason for his
directive.
Police IG Sulaiman Abba
”The Minister had barely issued his orders when
the DSS, which has unabashedly become a
megaphone of the ruling PDP, fired its own
warning, directed pointedly at ”a serving governor
calling on men of the armed forces to rise up in
protest against constituted authority,” when
nothing of such happened.
”If the Minister and indeed the security agencies
were carrying out their duties as an official/agents
of state rather than partisans, they would have
realized that no one is more guilty of making
inflammatory and even treasonable statements
than the supporters of the President and members
of the PDP.
”Yet, not once has the Minister, and the security
agencies under his control, called these people to
order. There is no better indication of the mindset
of these threats-issuing Minister and the security
agencies under his control than their glaring
double-standard and vexatious partisanship. This
is not how to run the affairs of state,” the party
said.
It recalled that a series of inflammatory, insulting
and downright treasonable comments by
supporters of President Goodluck Jonathan and
officials of the PDP all went without as much as a
whimper from those who are now howling at the
opposition for statements that are neither
inflammatory nor treasonable.
”A a die-hard supporter of President Goodluck
Jonathan once threatened that there will be blood
on the streets if the President is not re-elected,
without anyone calling him to order. He recently
said the President has already won the yet-to-be
conducted Feb. 14 presidential election, suggesting
that the election will be a mere formality. No one
called him to order.
”Another supporter of the President, Chief Edwin
Clark, said if the opposition had its way, it would
poison President Jonathan just to take power. The
Minister of Police Affairs and the security agencies
under his control snored the comment away.
”PDP National Secretary Wale Oladipo called the
presidential candidate of the APC, Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari, a ‘semi-literate jackboot’,
PDP National Publicity Secretary Olisa Metuh
heaped abuses on APC leaders in an ill-tempered
statement arising from a disoriented PDP in the
aftermath of the hugely-successful APC national
convention while a spokesman for the President
called Gen. Buhari names for being a ‘poor’ man,
yet this Minister and his agencies did not see
anything inflammatory in all these statements, all
because they came from members and supporters
of the ruling party.
”We know that Nigerians as well as the
international community are watching closely and
documenting these developments. It is important
to do so if they are to make informed comments
on the outcome of the forthcoming polls.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/12/apc-raises-alarm-fgs-plans-clampdown-opposition/

where was this minister when his police breached the constitution by barring the honourable from gaining access to the national Assembly? for this minister to realise now that freedom of speech is similar to incitement is then rather unfortunate.

WHY ARE THEY RAISING ALARM? THEY SHOULD ALSO RING BELL.
APC SAID THEY WILL FORM A PARRALEL GOVERNMENT AND WE ARE WATCHING THEY TO DO THAT THEN, THE BIAFRANS WILL GO CELEBRATING..

Wetin I go do ma brother oooo, wey dem no go talk.... Goodluck is never enough to be great, we need to CHANGE our attitude from corruption, insecurity, cluelessness and lately threatening to Progressiveness, Discipline and Hardwork... Let's go to 2015, God has broken the gates of brass...