The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has charged the hierarchy of the Army, Police and the Ddepartment of State Services, DSS, to speak up on the abduction of its Okene Local Government Chairman, Musa Adelabu, by gunmen reportedly dressed in military fatigue.
The party in a press statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, expressed worries that three days after his abductors reportedly dared his family members that they were acting on orders from above, there had been no trace of his whereabouts.
The party said, “it is completely unacceptable that since the public outcry by our party and members of his family over his violent abduction and despite the demands for his release, the high commands of the military, the Police and the DSS have failed to speak out on the matter.”
The PDP noted that the situation has heightened apprehensions of high-level partisan conspiracy to use some compromised security operatives against the opposition in Kogi state, in a desperate bid to foist the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the failed Governor, Yahaya Bello on the people of Kogi state.
The party said already, there was an ominous tension in Kogi state following intelligence reports filtering into the public domain that the PDP LG Chairman was being tortured by his captors in a secret facility and that his life was now in great danger.
The party said, “Such provocative situation is capable of sparking off serious crisis in Kogi state, which location as gateway and convergence state, means a lot of dire consequences for our nation, in the event of any disturbances in the area.
“It is therefore completely unacceptable that the security high command is not forthcoming with concrete statement or decisive action to secure his release despite calls by our party and the people of Kogi state.”
The PDP, therefore, called on President Muhammadu Buhari, as the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces to ensure the release of the Kogi PDP leader.
