{"id":172193,"date":"2022-04-04T22:48:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T21:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=172193"},"modified":"2022-04-04T22:48:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T21:48:43","slug":"pdp-reacts-to-sacking-of-abuja-imam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/04\/04\/pdp-reacts-to-sacking-of-abuja-imam\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP reacts to sacking of Abuja imam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party Governors Forum, on Monday in Abuja, described the sacking of the former Chief Imam of the National Assembly Legislators\u2019 Quarters Mosque, Sheikh Muhammad Khalid, as a dangerous trend of Fascism perpetrated by the All Progressives Congress-led government.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement signed late Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, titled \u2018Clampdown on Muslim cleric: PDP warns APC on fascism,\u2019 the PDP argued that the APC is more concerned with 2023 elections than the welfare and security of Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe clampdown on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/04\/04\/breaking-suspended-abuja-imam-sheikh-khalid-finally-sacked-for-critisicing-buhari\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sheikh Khalid<\/a> is reminiscent of the days of the obnoxious Military Decree 4 of 1984, under General Muhammadu Buhari, as Head of State, when telling the truth was categorised as a crime. Those days are scaringly creeping back!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSheikh Khalid, in his sermon, clearly expressed the frustration and concerns of millions of Nigerians across the country irrespective of religious, ethnic, and political leanings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs Sheikh Khalid not stating the facts when he stated that \u2018everything is not working well. People are dying; our roads are not secured. Most of the part of the country is not secured?&#8217;\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>The main opposition said that rather than clamp down on free speech, the ruling party should \u201cshed its arrogance in failure\u201d and reassure the people by taking decisive actions against terrorism and worsening insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the PDP refrains from delving into religious issues, our party cautions the APC to note that suppressing the concerns of citizens and resorting to fascist measures where constitutionally guaranteed freedom of expression is being brazenly assaulted is capable of triggering widespread social restiveness and escalating the already tensed situation in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis APC\u2019s recourse to an onslaught on the voice of citizens as witnessed in the clampdown on religious leaders, the opposition, the civil society, and the media indicates an unacceptable descent to tyranny and imposition of a siege mentality to suppress dissenting voices in the face of the APC\u2019s manifest failure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the character of fascism which is gradually creeping into our country under the APC and now deoxygenating our citizens\u2019 exercise of their freedom of expression as guaranteed under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended),\u201d the PDP noted.<\/p>\n<p>It said the APC must know that Nigerians are in a democracy and that Nigerians are not a conquered people who have no voice or aspiration; that history is replete with the fact that no individual or group of individuals had ever subdued or conquered Nigerians at any time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party Governors Forum, on Monday in Abuja, described the sacking of the former Chief Imam of the National Assembly Legislators\u2019 Quarters Mosque, Sheikh Muhammad Khalid, as a dangerous trend of Fascism perpetrated by the All Progressives Congress-led government. 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