PDP Attacks Sokoto Gov Over Tambuwal’s Aide Arrest


 The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Sokoto State has launched a scathing attack on Governor Ahmed Aliyu following the arrest of Shafi’u Tureta, a Special Assistant on Media to Senator Aminu Tambuwal, by the police on Sunday

In a statement released by the party’s spokesman, Hassan Sanyinnawal, the PDP alleged that Tureta was arrested under the direct orders of Governor Aliyu.

According to the PDP, Tureta was arrested for sharing a viral video clip of the governor struggling to make a statement in English Language and another equally viral clip of cash spray at the governor’s wife’s birthday party.

The statement read, “We, first of all, wish to draw the attention of the governor to the fact that the visuals in question must have been recorded by cameramen attached to his own office or his family and initially leaked to the public by the same personnel.

It is also not a crime under Nigerian law to make public, videos of the governor’s public engagements or events attended by his family, however embarrassing they may be


It is, therefore, the governor’s task or that of his aides to ensure that such materials do not get to the public arena”.

It added, “PDP wishes to caution the Sokoto State Government of its fast worsening human rights record, occasioned by its notoriety for harassment and assault on dissenting opinion.

We hereby, counsel the governor to turn his energy towards improving on the dismal performance of his regime, rather than the desperate struggle to stifle freedom of expression in the states


The PDP demands the immediate, unconditional release of Shafi’u Umar Tureta and a final stop to the brutality meted by the Sokoto State Government on citizens for simply exercising their constitutional right to criticising bad governance and unbecoming conduct by those in power in the state”

Meanwhile, efforts to get the reaction of Sokoto Police Command on the reasons behind the alleged arrest were not successful as the spokesman for the command, ASP Ahmed Rufai, could not be reached at the time of filing this report.


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