The African Democratic Congress Presidential Campaign Council, ADC-PCC, has given security agencies in Sokoto State 24 hours to behave in opposition to operatives of the Sokoto Marshals accused of attacking its governorship candidate, Munir Dan Iya.
The council stated Dan Iya was attacked alongside the Sokoto Airport Road, whereas returning to town after accompanying former governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal.
In a press release shared on X and signed by Kola Ologbondiyan, Director of Media and (*24*) of the ADC Presidential Campaign Council, ADC-PCC, stated some operatives vandalised autos in Dan Iya’s convoy, together with his private SUV.
The ADC additional claimed that two Department of State Services, DSS, personnel connected to Dan Iya have been kidnapped in the course of the incident.
The council additionally alleged that Sokoto Marshals had been harassing motorists and focusing on autos displaying ADC posters and occasion symbols at totally different gates into the metropolis.
According to the assertion, Dan Iya had reported the incident to the Sokoto State Commissioner of Police.
The ADC-PCC accused the state-owned security outfit of getting used to intimidate opposition members, describing the alleged conduct as a menace to democratic freedoms.
“This is not governance. It is banditry in uniform, and it must not be tolerated in a democracy,” the council stated.
It known as on the Inspector-General of Police, the Sokoto State Commissioner of Police and different security agencies to research the attack, safe the discharge of the 2 DSS personnel and arrest these accountable.
The council warned that failure to take decisive motion inside 24 hours would depart the occasion with no possibility however to pursue additional lawful steps to guard its members and political rights.
