{"id":28154,"date":"2014-06-20T04:27:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T03:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=28154"},"modified":"2014-06-20T04:40:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T03:40:37","slug":"atiku-warns-against-impunity-says-nigeria-sliding-into-police-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/atiku-warns-against-impunity-says-nigeria-sliding-into-police-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Atiku warns against impunity, says Nigeria sliding into police state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has warned the federal government against turning the country into a police state following the restrictions placed on the way of some All Progressives Congress (APC) governors and party members, to attend the campaign rally for their Ekiti State counterpart yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A press statement from the media office of the former Vice President noted that the action of the PDP-led federal government in stopping the governors of Kano, Rivers and Edo from attending the APC governorship campaign rally in Ado-Ekiti yesterday, in a Gestapo-like manner is capable of turning Nigeria into a Banana Republic where fundamental rights of citizens are trampled upon with impunity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The\u00a0<i>Turaki<\/i>\u00a0Adamawa was particularly miffed at the way the federal government has been dragging the military and police into politics warning &#8220;the government must stop instigating state security agents paid from tax payers money against helpless, hapless and law abiding Nigerians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The APC top chieftain who promised at the party&#8217;s recent national convention that he would lead the vanguard to unseat the Jonathan administration he described as inept and incompetent, enjoined &#8220;our gallant military men should remain focused on securing and protecting the territorial integrity of our great nation, especially in this time of terror attacks and insurgency across the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Atiku also reminded Nigerians &#8220;a government that deprives its citizens from access to jobs and education as manifested by the on-going closure of some tertiary institutions, such as polytechnics, to be shut for nearly a year, has alienated itself from the masses and will definitely suffer the repercussion at the polls, use of force or not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He stressed that the only viable alternative to the PDP-led government is the APC, which he said, &#8220;is a prescription for socio-political peace, progress, equity, security, unity and national development.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Signed:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Atiku Media Office<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">61 Ebitu Ukiwe Street<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jabi<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abuja<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atiku.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.atiku.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/atiku.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/atiku.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/atiku\" target=\"_blank\">www.twitter.com\/atiku<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has warned the federal government against turning the country into a police state following the restrictions placed on the way of some All Progressives Congress&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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