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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, caucus person astatine the House Of Representatives, Fred Agbedi, has frowned astatine the Nigeria constabulary blockade of the party’s convention.
Speaking successful an interrogation connected Arise Television on Sunday, Agbedi described the enactment arsenic an onslaught connected Nigeria’s democracy.
Operatives of the Nigeria constabulary on Saturday allegedly barricaded roads starring to the venue scheduled for the ratification of erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan arsenic the statesmanlike campaigner of the Taminu Turaki-led faction of the PDP.
Reacting to the incident, Agbedi said, “They blocked the full route, denied Nigerians entree to the road, and prevented the PDP from utilizing a venue it had lawfully secured for its convention.
“Faced with what we judge was an effort to shrink the governmental space, the PDP leadership, supporters, and members stood their crushed and remained vigilant, ensuring that the normal was not aborted.
“In a democracy, these are troubling signs that should interest each citizen. Any effort to restrict morganatic governmental activities undermines antiauthoritarian values and raises superior questions astir the country’s committedness to free, fair, and unfastened governmental participation.
“Nigerians indispensable stay vigilant successful defending antiauthoritarian abstraction and law freedoms.”
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