PDP vows to resist APC’s ‘impunity’

                   
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has vowed to resist what it described as the growing culture of impunity exhibited by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led administration.

The party, rising from a one day national conference in Abuja yesterday, condemned the “growing authoritarianism” of the Federal Government.

In a communiqué read at the end of the conference by the National Secretary, Prof. Wale Oladipo, the party decried the “sudden decline in the economy and quality of life of Nigerians.”

According to the PDP, the Muhammadu Buhari administration had been characterised by gross violation of human rights, constitutional infractions, invasion of a governor’s lodge and private homes, deliberate interference and instigation of crisis in the legislature.

The opposition listed arm-twisting of the judiciary, undermining of democratic institutions, such as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), nepotism in appointments, abuse of power and clamp down on opposition elements.

It urged the international community to note the constitutional infractions, violation of human rights, selective war against corruption, clamp down on the opposition, divisiveness and high-handedness.

These, the party said, were tendencies that posed threat to democracy and unity.

PDP leaders bemoaned what they termed the lack of direction of the APC government and the growing tension and rancour in the polity, as the consequences of the divisive tendencies of the government.

They viewed the administration’s anti graft war as being selective, targeted at opposition elements and perceived opponents of the Buhari government.