Nigeria’s Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has warned against the trampling of the opposition and total disregard for the rule of law in the guise of anti-corruption war.
In a press statement released on Friday, Senator Ekweremadu, who is a member of opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said that his party supports a genuine anti-graft crusade, but decried a situation where such crusade becomes a calculated attempt to decimate and silence the opposition while members of the ruling party, with serious corruption allegations, go about their businesses.
Speaking in the light of the continued detention of the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh, Senator Ekweremadu expressed fears that Nigeria was fast descending into authoritarianism.
He said that the continued detention of the PDP mouthpiece was an attempt to gag the opposition which is unhealthy for democracy.
He called on the nation to denounce and resist the prevailing situation where people are held in custody against the directives of the courts and laws of the land, insisting that there would be no justice without the rule of law.
