By,Giwa Alex, Jos
The Sule Lamido Support Group has challenged All Progressive Congress, APC to concentrate on good governance and stop harrasing and intimidating opposition parties across the country, even as it has been reminded to note that existence of opposition is an oxygen of a veril democracy .
Plateau state chapter of Sule Lamido support group for 2019 Presidental ambition made this call Thursday while addressing a” World Press Conference” on recent attacks on opposition parties in the state, allegedly perpetuated by APC.
Briefing newsmen at the campaign Group Secretariat in Kauwa House along Bukuru Road in jos plateau state, secretary, media group Sadat Garga and the state Public Relations Officer, PRO, Abaukar Mohammade Badu, decried the level at which the opposition parties in the state were being threatened.
“APC has taken part of destruction of properties of other political parties, and we will not seat and watch these people trauncate our hard earned democracy.
” When PDP was in power for sixten years, we were not attacking opposition parties rather, we focused on physical and human development, but to our greatest surprise, in the last few weeks we have been witnessing a new tradition of pulling down of bill boards belonging to PDP, by APC.
“Yesterday, being Wednesday, we closed here after 5pm, and we wake up this morning to realized that the Flex of banners used in this office as symbol for supporters of Sule Lamido 2019 ambition were vandalised and removed and we have reported to the landlord, the police and we got hint of those of who did that and we will soon expose them”.
” When PDP was in power, we did not go after any body’s bill board, but today the ruling party, APC has embarked on a tradition of pulling down of bill boards belonging to other political parties. This is uncivilized, undemocratic and to say the least barbaric ,and we must get this to the root and ensure that those involved are brought to book”.
He discribed such action as a bad signal cf the entrenchement of democcracy and challenged APC to focus attention to good governance, and allow opposition parties to do their bidding.
