Timi Frank condemns police siege on Dino Melaye’s residence

- The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) operatives' wait at Senator Dino Melaye's residence continues to generate reactions from prominent Nigerians

- Comrade Timi Frank has condemned the police siege, describing it as a terror tactic activated by the Buhari administration to drive opposition underground

- The international community has been urged to prevail on President Buhari to withdraw the police from Melaye’s house and free Deji Adeyanju

Former deputy national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has condemned in strong terms the ongoing police siege on Senator Dino Melaye’s residence.

Comrade Frank in a statement sent to Legit.ng on Sunday, December 30, said the planned arrest of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senator was to keep him out of circulation ahead of the 2019 general elections.

He described the invasion as a part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration’s latest strategy to forcefully incarcerate vocal members of the opposition in order to pave way for APC’s victory in the forthcoming polls.

Frank noted that having seen defeat staring at them, the APC government are now in a panic and desperate mode to cling to power at all cost.

He insisted that resorting to illegal arrest and incarceration of major opposition figures in the country is a terror tactic already activated by the Buhari administration to drive opposition underground.

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According to him, the invasion of Senator Melaye’s house and the disconnection of his public utilities service, amounts to visiting terror on an innocent Nigerian by a state funded security organisation. “This is condemnable and unacceptable in a democracy,” he stated.

Frank said: “Earlier in the life of this dictatorial administration, agents of the Department of State Services (DSS) forcefully gained entrance into the residence of some judicial officers in the midnight, all in the name of anti-corruption crusade.

“The Nigerian police has now taken this impunity a notch higher by disconnecting water and power supply from the house of a federal legislator for no justifiable cause. This is the second time the police would besiege Melaye’s house under the present Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris.

“We must all condemn this terrorist act being visited on a Nigerian citizen. Today it is Melaye. Tomorrow it might be you or me. Nobody is safe in this country any more. If you escape being mowed down by criminals and outlaws because of the inability of security forces to protect the people, the same security forces will come after you by breaking your house and disrupting your water and power supply, all in the name of trying to arrest you to face spurious charges.

“We know that no individual can be above the laws of a society, but when lawful agencies themselves break the law by turning themselves into political instruments of vendetta against perceived opposition figures, then they are invariably preparing grounds for chaos and anarchy to resign.

“They are doing this because they don’t want the 2019 elections to hold. They fear defeat and they are seeing defeat. They want to scuttle the elections and blame it on unrest and insecurity.

“This is the time for all men of good conscience to rise and speak against democratic demagoguery now in full bloom in the country under Buhari. The fabrics of our nation are being torn apart and we cannot afford to remain silent while our country is being ravaged by flames ignited by a failed administration.

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"I hereby call on the international community to prevail on President Buhari to withdraw the police from Melaye’s house and free Deji Adeyanju because we are in democracy and not a military junta.”

Meanwhile, the police in a statement sent to Legit.ng on Sunday, December 30, says its operatives' deployed to arrest Senator Melaye in his residence won't retreat until the PDP senator surrenders himself for arrest and investigation.

The police says the Kogi-born senator is wanted for criminal conspiracy and attempted culpable homicide.

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