Atiku’s Deputy Campaign DG Turaki Arrested, Says PDP
Nigeria’s main opposition party, PDP, says Deputy Director-General of the Atiku Campaign Organisation, Tanimu Turaki (SAN), has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Spokesman for the party Kola Ologbondiyan made this known in a statement on Monday as the PDP demanded his immediate and unconditional release, claiming he was arrested for no just cause.
Ologbondiyan said Turaki’s arrest and detention was part of the alleged grand plot by the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress to use state apparatus to intimidate PDP.
He said, “Since the people’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar and the PDP expressed our unwavering determination to reclaim our victory at the tribunal, being armed with overwhelming evidence, our leaders have been subjected to escalated harassments, constant threats, blackmails, cajoling and contrivances by the APC to drop our legal option.
“It is instructive to state that Turaki was arrested and detained upon invitation by the EFCC to endorse a bail document for the Finance Director of Atiku Abubakar’s company, Babalele Abdullahi, who was arrested earlier by the commission over flimsy allegations.”
According to him, the APC and the Buhari presidency are fighting a lost battle.
The PDP spokesman said no amount of harassment and threats will ever make the party buckle in its determination to take back its acclaimed mandate, in line with the wishes and aspirations of Nigerians.
Ologbondiyan stated that Nigerians are resolute on the struggle to reclaim the mandate, he claimed, was freely given to Atiku at the polls.
He added that the PDP would pursue this decision to its logical end and secure justice.
