Segun Showunmi, a chieftain of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Department of State Security Services (DSS) to provide information on the whereabouts of Babatunde Gbadamosi, a former PDP Lagos State gubernatorial aspirant who was arrested by the DSS on Wednesday.
According to Showunmi, “It doesn’t sit well with us first as Nigerians and especially as opposition that he is held without information as to why and where nor access to his family and lawyers. His last known whereabout was that he came to honor an invitation with your Lagos Shagisha office. Release him”, he said.
In a similar development, the Coalition in Defence of Nigerian Democracy and Constitution has condemned the arrest of Gbadamosi describing it as arbitrary and “part of a wider plot to silence opposition and crack down on critics of the federal government and the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) at the centre and in some states of the federation”.
The group in a statement signed by its Co-Convener, Ariyo-Dare Atoye, recalled that Audu Maikori, a Nigerian music mogul was also recently picked up in a similar fashion and whisked away from Lagos to Abuja.
“It is a long list of crack down on critics of the ruling party to foist an autocratic rule on Nigeria and condemn the people to the terror of the state. The people of Nigeria are already down; but it is our duty as pro-democracy and human rights activists never to allow the people to sink”, the group said.
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