The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has demanded the immediate and unconditional release of Salihu Yakasai former spokesman of Governor Umaru Abdullahi Ganduje.
Ganduje sacked Yakasai, son elder statesman Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, for criticising the Buhari administration’s handling of security in Nigeria.
The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP Kola Ologbondiyan on Saturday said the reported arrest and subsequent detention of Salihu in a secret facility, just after his criticism against the Buhari administration’s failures in the fight against banditry in our country, was completely unacceptable.
The PDP said Yakasai’s arrest sadly reminds the nation of the sudden disappearance of another known critic of the Buhari administration, Abubakar Idris, popularly known as Abu Hanifa Dadiyata, since August 2019.
“Our party therefore rejects the arrest of Salihu Yakasai, for joining other patriotic Nigerians in demanding a presidential commitment of a decisive action to rescue the abducted Zamfara schoolgirls as well as to end all acts of terrorism in our country,” Ologbondiyan said.
