Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that the ruling party, All Progressives Congress is plotting to use the Director General of Department of State Services (DSS), Lawan Daura, to interfere in some election petitions pending before the tribunals.
National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh while speaking with journalists disclosed that t Daura had invited some people handling election cases in Rivers and other states to discuss matters before the tribunal.
Metuh said “PDP want to alert the nation and international community that this is gross interference in democratic affairs, which can lead to draconian regime where security forces and apparatus of government will be used to decide and influence election matters.”
Metuh who spoke at the end of the weekly National Working Committee (NWC) of the party, expressed concern over the dissolution of local government councils in Plateau and Katsina States without a valid court judgment.
He assured all PDP members and supporters that NWC would work with party stakeholders to fill vacancies created in the Board of Trustees.