The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom State has demanded the immediate release of political detainees arrested before and after the national and presidential elections.
Among those arrested include Iniobong Eking, special assistant to the state government on Security matters who was reported picked up by the army.
PDP has before now raised the alarm of over plans by the security forces to arrest its members ahead of the elections.
In a statement in Uyo, the state capital, Ini Ememobong, the party’s publicity secretary said many of its high ranking members have been incarcerated in the orders of the All Progressive Congress.
Before the elections, we had notified the whole world of plans to harass, arrest and incarcerate high ranking members of the People’s Democratic Party in Akwa Ibom state, on the instigation of the All Progressives Congress.
According to him, these arrests were made without lawful justification and for the most flimsy reasons, like wearing a PDP cap addition that most of the detainees have been denied access to their family and friends.
With the first leg of the election completed, the party “demands that all security agencies should immediately and unconditionally release all those who were arrested for political reasons.
“Where there is any strand of evidence of wrongdoing against them, they should be prosecuted.
“That all security agencies should act lawfully and within the bounds of the law,” the statement added.
