Ebonyi PDP Accuses APC Over Fresh Plot to Harass, Arrest Members
Onyeka Nnabu
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ebonyi state chapter has raised an alarm over alleged fresh plot of the All Progressives Congress to intimidate, harass and arrest their members in the state.
Briefing journalists in Abakaliki,.the state Publicity Secretary of PDP, Prince Darlington Onwe alleged that there was fresh fabrication by the APC to arrest PDP members on illegal procurement of Permanent Voter Card (PVCs).
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Onwe stressed that PDP has not contemplated, authorised, or condoned any conduct capable of violating the Electoral Act 2026, the guidelines of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), or any other extant law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
According to the PDP spokesman: “information reported to our Party, the next phase of this scheme involves fabricating allegations that PDP members are engaged in the illegal procurement of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs), as a pretext to intimidate, harass, arrest, and incarcerate our loyal members and officials”.
“Our Party is a law-abiding political organisation, and at no time has it contemplated, authorised, or condoned any conduct capable of violating the Electoral Act 2026, the guidelines of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), or any other extant law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria”.
“We therefore reject, in its entirety, any attempt to associate our members with unlawful dealings in PVCs, and we hold that this narrative is being manufactured solely to justify a pre-planned campaign of arrests and intimidation against our party faithful”.
“Accordingly, we wish to place on record that the actions being contemplated by the Ebonyi State Government and the ruling APC, if allowed to proceed, would constitute a grave violation of fundamental constitutional rights and international legal conventions”.
“Specifically, this planned repression directly assaults the rights to personal liberty, freedom of expression, peaceful assembly, association, and free movement guaranteed under Sections 35, 39, 40, and 41 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), alongside Section 222 and related provisions of the Constitution and the Electoral Act 2026 governing lawful political activities and due process”.
The Party further added that any attempt to weaponise state security architecture to entrap, arrest, or detain PDP members on manufactured allegations would amount to an assault on the democratic character of the Nigerian State.
Onwe also called on security agencies, institutions and stakeholders to take urgent note of the looming threat to democracy and the rule of law in Ebonyi State, and to act proactively to forestall it.
(DEMOCRACY NEWSLINE NEWSPAPER 14TH AUGUST, 2026)
