The Peoples
Democratic Party has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to direct the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission to immediately unfreeze the private bank
accounts of its governorship candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke, in the Osun
State election, and those of his family members, including singer, David Adeleke,
popularly known as Davido.
The party
described the freezing of the accounts as oppressive, tyrannical, provocative
and a direct recipe for crisis in the state, given that the people of Osun are
solidly behind Adeleke ahead of the election.
In addition,
the PDP also directed its members, including state governors, officials at
zonal and state chapters, national and states assembly members, all
presidential and governorship aspirants as well as other stakeholders,
particularly, in the South-West zone, to immediately commence movement into
Osun State with their political machinery to campaign and support the PDP
candidate.
National
Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement in
Abuja on Saturday, said the freezing of the Adelekes’ accounts by an agency of
the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government, a week to the
governorship election, underscored the fact that the APC ” is mortally afraid
of our candidate and has been seeking ways to undermine his electoral
fortunes.”
He added,
“Such savage attack on innocent citizens confirms the viciousness of the
Buhari-led APC administration to use any means whatsoever to subjugate
Nigerians and appropriate power to itself at all cost.
Ologbondiyan
said that the people of Osun State are behind Senator Adeleke and will freely
vote for him irrespective of the machinations of the Buhari-led APC.
He,
therefore, called on the people of the state to collectively condemn what he
called “wickedness meted out on their son and members of his family” and to
ensure that they use their votes to make a statement “against the APC by voting
en masse for their beloved son.”
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