Federal government is building prison to arrest PDP members - Secondus

Secondus stated this during a two-day retreat for members of the newly elected National Working Committee of the party, the Punch reports.

Secondus warned that those building the prisons might be the occupiers, adding that it was wrong for the federal government to be persecuting members of the PDP because of their refusal to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Secondus also stated that it was wrong to assume that the PDP was not ready to fight corruption, stressing that the regime of former President Olusegun Obasanjo established institutions that he said “are currently waging a war against graft in the country.”

The PDP chairman added that the former president did not spare members of the PDP then, unlike now when he alleged that the ruling party “protects its members.”

He says: “We learnt that they are building more prisons. Let them go ahead and build more. They will be the one to stay there.

“We learnt that they are coming after our members in January. Let them continue. How many people will they put in jail?

“They should stop intimidating people. They should remember that almost everybody they had put in jail wrongly came back to become President.

“This is because they were jailed unjustifiably. So, if they are persecuting us, let them continue. But we will not withdraw the ultimatum we gave them to quit Aso Rock in 2019.”

“We stabilised the structure to fight corruption. Obasanjo, a PDP president, started the fight against corruption. He fought our members. But unlike now, no matter how corrupt you are, if you don’t want to be arrested, just defect to the APC.”

A version of this report appeared on the Punch.