Timi Franks says FG planning to arrest Atiku, others

Frank revealed that Senate President Bukola Saraki and the PDP chairman, Uche Secondus are also on the list of those to be arrested.

A former spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Timi Frank has alleged that the Federal Government is planning to arrest the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar.

Frank said that Senate President Bukola Saraki and the PDP chairman, Uche Secondus are also on the list of those to be arrested. The former APC spokesman, in a statement sent to Daily Post, condemned the siege on the Senator Dino Melaye’s home by the police.

Frank called on all Nigerians to condemn the action, saying that the plan is to keep Melaye out of circulation till after the elections in 2019.

He said “This is condemnable and unacceptable in a democracy.

“Earlier in the life of this dictatorial administration, agents of the Department of State Services, DSS, forcefully gained entrance into the residence of some Judicial Officers in the midnight, all in the name of anti-corruption crusade.

“The Nigeria police has now taken this impunity a notch higher by disconnecting water and power supply from the House of a Federal legislator for no justifiable cause. This is the second time the police would besiege Melaye’s house under the present Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris.

“We must all condemn this terrorist act being visited on a Nigerian citizen. Today it is Melaye. Tomorrow it might be you or me. Nobody is safe in this country any more.

“If you escape being mowed down by criminals and outlaws because of the inability of security forces to protect the people, the same security forces will come after you by breaking your house and disrupting your water and power supply, all in the name of trying to arrest you to face spurious charges.

“We know that no individual can be above the laws of a society, but when lawful agencies themselves break the law by turning themselves into political instruments of vendetta against perceived opposition figures, then they are invariably preparing grounds for chaos and anarchy to resign.

“They are doing this because they don’t want the 2019 elections to hold. They fear defeat and they are seeing defeat. They want to scuttle the elections and blame it on unrest and insecurity.

“Is it for nothing that the military that are battling to hold their own against Boko Haram insurgents in the northeast without success, recently announced that they will commence Operation Python Dance (operation intimidate opposition and rig elections for Buhari and APC) throughout the entire states of the federation in January?

“Is it for nothing that the police, whose over 100 of its personnel deployed to fight Boko Haram alongside the military in the Northeast recently abdicated their duty posts? Yet they have enough personnel to lay siege on Melaye’s house with a vow to stay there until they deliver him to jail.

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