Nda-Isaiah flares the presidency over NASS/APC data centre police invasion

Dr. Sam Ndah-Isaiah

Publisher of Leadership Newspapers and All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Aspirant, Dr. Sam Ndah-Isaiah, has condemned last week’s invasion of National Assembly complex by the police and Lagos APC data centre by the Department of State Service, DSS, describing it as a deliberate act by the Presidency to collapse democracy in the country.

This came even as DSS released 25 out of 28 arrested persons at the APC data centre in Ikeja.

Ndah-Isaiah who made the remarks, yesterday, in an interview on the state of the nation, noted that the rising impunity and lawlessness on the part of the Federal Government in the country’s body polity was scary.

He said, “I think the President deliberately wanted to collapse the system. I don’t know why the stakeholders in the democracy are trying to pull it down. This is not the kind of democracy we are asking for. All of us fought the military to have democracy. What is happening in National Assembly, the president is behind it. The talk about the Inspector General of Police is not the case. How could IG invade National Assembly, if not ordered directly from the president? Not even the vice president can give such an order.”

“This is the president using the state institutions for personal attacks, bugging the opposition party offices. The level of lawlessness, the level of impunity and total absence of rule of law in this country is scary. We have to rescue ourselves. I am sure Nigerians are not ready to walk into an open disaster. If he (President) wants to use these tactics to harass the opposition, I don’t think it will work.”

Meantime, the Publicity Secretary of Lagos APC, Mr. Joe Igbokwe, yesterday, confirmed the release of 25 out of the 28 arrested staff at party data centre by DSS. Igbokwe said the DSS released the staff after interrogating them adding that they were asked to report back on Monday for further investigation.

Igbokwe, however, said that three were still being held as 28 persons were actually arrested on the day of the invasion by the DSS. While calling for an independent enquiry into the armed invasion, he said that, “nothing, not even the deployment of illegal brute force, would deter Nigerians from pursuing the truth and setting themselves free from the shackles of oppression by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP-led Federal Government.”