Governors under the umbrella of the Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday morning said Nigeria is sliding into dictatorship under the leadership of
President Muhammadu Buhari.
The governors, under the aegis of PDP Governors’ Forum, made this known after rising from a almost two-hour meeting of the forum held in the inner chamber of the Bayelsa State Governor’s office in Yenagoa.
The PDP governors, led by their chairman and Governor of Ondo State, Mr. Olusegun Mimiko, condemned in strong terms, the alleged invasion of Akwa Ibom State Government House by operatives of the Department of the State Security.
Mimiko, who read the communique of the forum to select journalists, said the invasion was against the spirit, ethos, values and fundamental tenets of democratic norms and tradition, more so with the existence of a duly elected and sworn in governor of the state.
He said, “We insist that the trend must stop henceforth. No democracy survives without a viable opposition in any part of the world and we must also remember to remind the APC that they are the real beneficiaries of the liberal democratic ethos of the PDP.
“We once more advise the DSS to preoccupy itself with the task of ensuring internal security and desist from daily harassing and intimidating members of the opposition.