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Armed policemen have reportedly surrounded the Abuja residence of the Director of Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Organization, Shehu Garba.
In a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said Garba’s residence at the NNPC Quarters, Area 11, Abuja, has been surrounded by armed policemen since 3am on Thursday, making it impossible for him to even go to the mosque for prayers.
The statement reads: “Going after the Spokesman of our party’s Presidential Campaign Organization is aimed at muffling the organization’s voice and abridging the constitutionally-guaranteed rights of the Spokesman himself. This is antithetic to democracy and totally unacceptable”.
The statement added: “The PDP and the Jonathan Administration are bent on badgering the opposition through the harassment, intimidation and arrest of its leaders as well as the circulation of unfounded rumours against the party. These actions are all aimed at fomenting a crisis and scuttling the forthcoming elections.
“We are therefore calling on all Nigerians as well as the international community to take note of this growing pattern of harassment and intimidation of the opposition, and the effect such action will have on the conduct of the elections”