The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has cautioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over the arrest and detention of a former aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode.
The PDP said the arrest of the former spokesperson for the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation was what it described as the latest in a series of plans designed to further harass and intimidate its members and supporters using the security and intelligence apparatus of the Nigerian State.
Fani-Kayode slumped in the custody of the EFCC on Saturday, October 22, 2016. According to a statement by his media aide, Jude Ndukwe, the PDP chieftain was revived by the medical personnel in the EFCC detention centre.
A statement issued by Dayo Adeyeye, the spokesperson of the PDP on Tuesday, October 25, 2016 in Abuja raised alarm over the fact that Fani-Kayode has been denied his medication by the EFCC since his arrest on Friday.
“What is not common knowledge is that at the time of his arrest, Fani-Kayode was ill and taking medication,” Adeyeye said.
“Since his arrest, he has been denied access to his medication and medical doctors who are conversant with his medical history. As of the time of writing this statement, officials of the EFCC have continued to deny Fani-Kayode access to his medication.
“The only conclusion that can be reached is that the All Progressives Congress- led Federal Government and EFCC want Fani-Kayode to die in detention.”
Adeyeye accused the EFCC of detaining “an obviously weak and ill man.”
He alleged that the the action of the commission violates the constitutional rights and freedoms of the Nigerian people, and called on the government to halt such action.
“The Federal Government cannot, and must not, be allowed to continually infringe on the rights of the very people it swore to uphold,” he added.
The former minister of works called on all well meaning Nigerians to urge the Federal Government to desist from what he described as “its path of human rights abuses.”
