By; BUHARI B. BELLO, Jos
Group of irate youth have vandalised ,Alh Sule Lamido Support office around Kwalwa House in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State on Wednesday evening, destroying valuable items for electioneering campaign.
The Plateau State chapter of Sule Lamido Support Group for 2019 Presidential ambition made this known while addressing a press conference on recent attacks on opposition parties in the state, allegedly being perpetuated by APC.
They challeged the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the state to focus and concentrate on good governance and stop harrassing and intimidating opposition parties across the country, even as it has been reminded to note that good democracy only thrives with existence of opposition parties.
According to him ,” the Plateau State secretary, media group Sadat Garga and the state Public Relations Officer (PRO), Abaukar Mohammade Badu, decried the level at which the opposition parties in the state were being threatened.
“APC has taken part of destruction of properties of other political parties, and we will not sit and watch these people truncate democracy.
” When PDP was in power for sixten years, we were not attacking opposition parties rather, we focused on phiscal and human development, but to our greatest surprise, in the last few weeks we have been witnessing a new tradition of pulling down of bill boards belonging to PDP, by APC.
“on Wednesday, we closed here after 5pm, and we woke up this morning to realized that the flex of banners used in this office as symbol for supporters of Sule Lamido 2019 ambition were vandalised and removed and we have reported to the landlord, the police and we got hint of those of who did that and we will soon expose them”.
” When PDP was in power, we did not go after anybody’s bill board, but today the ruling party, APC has embarked on a tradition of pulling down of bill boards belonging to other political parties.
“This is uncivic, uncivilised, undemocratic and barbaric and we must trace this to the roots and ensure that those involved are brought to book,he noted “.
He described such actions as a bad signals cf the entrenchment of democracy and challenged the APC to focus attention to good governance, and allow opposition parties to do their bidding.
“As we speak our Edo state Chairman, Chief Dan Orbih was summoned, questioned and his personal freedom curtailed by the police in Edo state for daring to speak against corruption in the state, an action which the unscrupulous officers at the command boasted will teach him and PDP members in the state, a lesson. We commend Chief Dan Orbih for his forthrightness even in the face of harassments and intimidation by the APC. “In Kogi State, there are reports of APC agents attacking and destroying property belonging to opposition members and supporters. Nigerians have not forgotten how the APC government in Kaduna state demolished property belonging to opposition members and perceived political opponents; how the PDP secretariat in Borno was destroyed and how our property and those of our supporters were destroyed by agents of government in Adamawa state.