PDP cautions security agencies against Buhari’s shooting order

PDP cautions security agencies against Buhari’s shooting order

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus (left); Senate President Bukola Saraki; PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar; Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and former Senate President David Mark during the emergency NEC meeting of the party in Abuja….yesterday.

• Presidency urges support, army, police warn ballot box snatchers
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rose from its 84th National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting yesterday, warning the security agencies against carrying out the shoot-on-sight order issued by President Muhammadu Buhari against ballot box snatchers.

The party’s national chairman, Uche Secondus, declared that “the agenda of that directive is to scare away voters and agents that we have directed to defend their votes, so as to give way to military-protected political thugs to come into the polling booths and implement their result replacement strategy.”

He cautioned that any security officer who decides to engage in killings in obedience to the president’s order would be doing so at his own risk as the law would surely take care of the situation.

Adamu said the heads of the security agencies deliberated on the consequences and came up with the resolve to further provide adequate security within the country so that the electorate will come out and cast their votes without any fear of molestation.

Buhari had, at the national caucus’ meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) held at the party secretariat in Abuja on Monday said he had ordered the security agents to deal ruthlessly with anyone who snatches ballot boxes or attempts to undermine the integrity of the polls even at the cost of his own life.

He also said any politician portraying himself to be popular in his domain and hoping to exploit such popularity to hire thugs to snatch ballot boxes during the elections would do so at the expense of his own life.

The president’s comment, however, elicited condemnation by many, who reminded him that the punishment for ballot box snatching is imprisonment for a period of time and not instant death as threatened by him.

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