A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank, has written another open letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations Mr Antonio Guterres, alleging that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, has been persecuting some perceived to oppose the government.
PoliticsNGR gathered that those mentioned in the letter include Senate President Bukola Saraki, Senator Dino Melaye, Kwara state governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, among others.
The open letter released on Monday and titled “Persecution of Saraki and its implications for democracy” was routed through the UN High-Level Representative to Nigeria.
According to Frank, who is also the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of APC, the political scenario in Nigeria and the highhandedness of the executive and its agents against law-abiding Nigerians is becoming unbearable and unless something is done urgently to salvage the situation, “our hard earned democracy will be plagued by disaster of unimaginable proportion.
“Only yesterday, the police, not tired of subterfuge came up with bizarre claims that robbery suspects arrested in connection with the Offa Bank robbery have implicated the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki.
“Recall that Saraki had two weeks ago raised an alarm about the directive from the Force Headquarters to transfer cultists and murder suspects arrested and being prosecuted in Ilorin, Kwara State, to Abuja, in a bid to tutor them to implicate him and the governor of the State, Abdulfatah Ahmed.
“Following the uproar, the police became silent for a while and have now decided to use the Offa robbery suspects to achieve their sinister goal against the President of the Senate.
“I want you to note that the police on this occasion have not said anything new. What they wanted to achieve through the surreptitious transfer of arrested cultists and murder suspects from Ilorin to Abuja, they have now achieved through the Offa bank robbery suspects. Unfortunately, the President has not deemed it fit to call his stray agents to order in spite of the formal report on the issue made to him by a panel set up by the Senate following the alarm raised by Saraki on the impending fraudulent indictment about two weeks ago.”
The Bayelsa born young politician, however, called on the leaders of the G-7 nations to intervene to prevent what he called “looming catastrophe in Nigeria.
“I believe that prevention would be better than cure in this case because if highly placed Nigerians like the President of the Senate are being made to undergo these indignities, then there is no hope for democracy and rule of law which is about the preservation, welfare and protection of the common man. The country is dire political straits and we need your timely intervention to restore peace rule of law.”
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