Buhari’s Politicisation Comment, Plot To Emasculate Opposition -PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday, rejected as undemocratic and completely unacceptable, President Muhammadu Buhari’s comment that security agencies will deal decisively with any person or group that dares to criticise the handling of security under his administration, saying that it is a plot to emasculate the opposition.
While receiving freed Dapchi school girls last Friday, Buhari had noted: “May I also warn against those elements who have chosen to make the political fortune of our citizens’ misfortune. The government would not tolerate any attempt by any person or group to trivialize or politicise security issues for politically motivated ends. Accordingly, security agencies would not hesitate to decisively deal with such unscrupulous characters.”
But in a statement issued by Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary of the party in Abuja, the PDP said as a party, after a thorough review of all issues and the fact that nobody apart from the President himself politicised the Dapchi issue when he boasted that his response time was faster than that of former President Goodluck Jonathan, holds that President Buhari’s pronouncement on alleged politicization of security issues is targeted at emasculating opposition and those with contrary opinions to the views of the APC interests.
It argued that the President’s statement completely betrays a dangerous political intolerance and utter disdain for the rule of law and constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech and opinion of citizens in a democracy.