Lawal Daura’s Sacking Victory For Democracy – PDP Chieftain

The National Vice-Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party, South-South, Mr. Emmanuel Ogidi, said the sacking of erstwhile Director-General of Department of State Services, Lawal Daura, was good relief and victory for democracy.

Ogidi told News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja that Daura “misused the service,” “misdirecting it from its role to the pedestal of Gestapo and instrument of persecution.”

He deplored Tuesday’s blockade of National Assembly by operatives of the Service, describing it as “coup against Nigeria’s democracy.”

Ogidi said that such action, “which was obviously ordered by the sacked director-general and his cohorts,” was inimical to growth of the country’s nascent democracy and should not be tolerated by any lover of democracy.

According to him, it is unfortunate that the personnel of the DSS, “an agency which is supposed to secure the nation,” took over the National Assembly, “the pillar of democracy.”

“It is unfortunate that the All Progressives Congress-led government allowed this to happen with the aim to impeach the leadership of the National Assembly.

“It is also unfortunate that they are holding the country hostage; it is a coup against Nigeria’s democracy and nobody should support it.’’

On the call on the National Assembly to suspend their recess to attend to issues considered as national importance, the PDP vice chairman said that everybody knew that the call was part of the “attempt to impeach the Assembly’s leadership.”

“The request is not in the interest of the Independent National Electoral Commission, nor (is it) for the electorate waiting to cast their votes in the 2019 general elections,” he argued.

(NAN)