The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Campaign Council for Edo Governorship Election has called out the Buhari Presidency over the trending video showing the sacked National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole and the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, at the Presidential Villa, in which discussion on the arrests of certain individuals, ahead of the September 19 governorship election, was held.
The PDP National Publicity Secretary who is also also the Secretary of PDP National Campaign Council on Edo Governorship election, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement on Tuesday, said Nigerians were alarmed by the video in which Oshiomhole was seen emphatically urging the Chief of Staff to Mr. President on the need to clampdown on certain unnamed Nigerians to achieve political suppression and submission ahead of the Edo election.
He said the National Campaign holds that the presence and involvement of the Chief of Staff to the President and the fact that the discussion held within the precincts of the Presidential Villa, has made the Presidency complicit and place a huge burden on President Muhammadu Buhari.
According to him, there is anxiety in the public space that the discussion between Oshiomhole and Prof. Gambari as captured in the video is an extension of discussions that must have held behind closed doors in the Presidential Villa.
He further said the video has validated earlier revelations of plots by Oshiomhole and the discredited APC governorship candidate, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, to use compromised security operatives being mobilized by certain individuals in the Presidency, to arrest innocent Nigerians, including traditional, faith-based, and community leaders on trumped-up charges ahead of the Edo election.
He added that Nigerians and the people of Edo state now know those to hold responsible should there be cases of illegal arrests, assassinations and unexplained killings, sudden disappearances of prominent people, accidental discharge by federally controlled security agencies.