About 24 hours after alleged assassination attempt was made on the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, national leadership of opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) alleged that the Presidency and certain stalwarts of the All Progressives Congress (APC) were behind the attack.
On Tuesday, Ekweremadu’s media adviser said his convoy was attacked by unknown gunmen on his way to the National Assembly. The police denied knowledge of the attack.
But, addressing a press conference yesterday in Abuja, PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, alleged that the attempt on Ekweremadu’s life was part of a coordinated plot to eliminate key figures of the party.
Flanked by the National Secretary, Prof. Wale Oladipo and National Organising Secretary, Abubakar Mustapha, he listed Acting national Chairman, Uche Secondus, members of the party’s National Working Committee, Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, House Minority Leader, Leo Ogor, and the acting Board of Trustees (BoT) Chairman, Haliru Bello Mohammed as targets of gunmen, based on intelligence information.
“We have informed Nigerians that key PDP leaders were being trailed and that the APC administration should be held responsible should any of them suddenly become victim of ‘terror attacks’, unexplained accidents, kidnapped or suddenly being killed by ‘armed robbers’.
“Nigerians are witnesses to the increasing muzzling of opposition using security forces, judicial persecution and other devious means aimed at decimating our party to pave way for the imposition of one-party state, all in the desperate bid by this particular regime to forcefully retain power in 2019.