Fayose Accounts: PDP Hails Judiciary
The Alhaji Ahmed Makarfi Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has commended the country’s Judiciary for protecting opposition against the perceived excesses of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Reacting to Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti, Tuesday’s order to the EFCC and the Zenith Bank to unfreeze governor Ayodele Fayose’s accounts, it said those conferred with constitutional immunity would have allegedly been clamped into jail by All Progressives Congress-led federal government, if the judiciary had not curbed what it described as the impunity of the anti-graft agency.
The party, which voiced its readiness to enter into merger with other like-minded political associations in the country ruled out the possibility of changing its nomenclature ahead of the 2019 general elections to be able to wrestle power from the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary and the Ex-Minister of State for Works, ,Prince Dayo Adeyeye, who
stated this in Ise Ekiti, headquarters of Ise-Orun local government area of Ekiti State said “we in the PDP’s family are particularly happy with the judgement, because it will help in curbing the reign of impunity under President Buhari’s government.
“EFCC acted against Governor Fayose as if it was not a creation of the constitution. It acted lawlessly and as if individual’s rights to own an account as guaranteed by the 1999 constitution no longer exists.
“We really applaud the role of judiciary in the way it has been adjudicating on some political issues. But for their roles, the nation will by now be witnessing a full blown dictatorship”, he said.
Describing PDP as the strongest
party in African continent, the party’s spokesman who accused the APC of destroying the fortunes of the country since President Buhari came on board in 2015 and plunged the people into unwarranted economic recession added that the PDP is well prepared to defeat the APC in the forthcoming 2019 elections,
“The PDP is well prepared for the task ahead, particularly for 2019. We are not ruling out the possibility of merging with other political parties, because there could be merger which our party can be part of.
“As we speak now, the PDP remains the strongest party in Nigeria and Africa. We are now more united than ever.
“All the serving and former governors, members of the National Assembly, all the State chairmen of the party are now on one side. They are all supporting Alhaji Makarfi caretaker committee.
