The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Department of State Services (DSS) to explain its alleged role in the violent abduction of a social activist and PDP new media personality, Abubakar Idris, popularly known as Abu Hanifa Dadiyata.
Idris, a fierce critic of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its administration, particularly in Kano State. was reportedly abducted last Friday, and has since gone incommunicado.
Speaking through a statement on Thursday, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, said the DSS could not continue to keep quiet on the issue as there were claims in the public domain that its men allegedly participated in the abduction upon the instruction of APC leaders.
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He said, “There are already public insinuations that Dadiyata’s abduction to an unknown destination is not unconnected with an apparent desperation to intimidate, suppress and silence public opinion and free speech in Nigeria as well as to further entrench a siege mentality on our citizenry.
“The PDP therefore demands that the DSS high command speak out and take urgent steps to secure the release of Dadiyata from his abductors before it is too late.
“This is especially because the polity is already overheated and any delay in the release of Dadiyata is capable of triggering further aggressions in our polity, particularly in Kano State, where he commands a very large following.”