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Osoba’s
arrest: AD chieftain berates Daniel
By Chuks Ehirim
Senior
Correspondent,
Abuja
A chieftain of the Alliance for Democracy
(AD), Mr. Donatus Obieye, has condemned the recent arrest and brief detention
of the former governor of Ogun State, Chief Segun Osoba, by the police in
Lagos, over the attack on Governor Gbenga Daniel’s convoy by students of
the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro.
Speaking to journalists in Abuja on Tuesday,
Obieye who is the party’s deputy national publicity secretary, also
faulted the claim by Governor Daniel that Osoba had a hand in the attack.
“There is nothing in what happened to Governor Gbenga Daniel to prove
that Chief Osoba has a hand in the alleged attack on him,” said Obieye.
A group, in a statement, same day, demanded
for an apology from those who ordered Osoba’s arrest. The group, in the
statement by its president, Abdul Rasaq Usman Sanusi, described the arrest and
detention of Osoba as “totally uncalled for and a big
embarrassment.”
The group warned the PDP government in Ogun
not to misinterpret Osoba’s silence since it came to power to mean that
he deserved being embarrassed or maltreated. It described Osoba as a peace
loving man who preaches peace always.
“If not that he is a complete peace
maker, he would not have accepted the results of the last governorship election
in the state,” said the group.
Obieye said the attack on Daniel has
nothing to do with Osoba but informed by the governor’s failure to
provide dividends of democracy to the people of Ogun State.
“The attack on Daniel is informed by
his non-performance. The students are worried about the colossal failure of the
PDP government, not only in Ogun State but throughout the Nigerian federation,”
said he.
He said the students are asking Governor
Daniel to drop his grand standing and face the real business of governance
which is staring him in the face. “They want dividends of democracy, not
empty sloganeering, as is now the case in all PDP-led governments in the
South-West,” Obieye argued.
He added that the harassment of Osoba is
tantamount to intimidation of AD in the state but warned that it should not
have any effect on the party’s resolve to reclaim what was forcefully
taken away from it, come 2007.
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