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Last Sunday, The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) described as “inhuman, abominable and callous”, the arrest, detention and eventual deportation of 14 indigent Nigerians by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government of Lagos State.
The PDP issued a statement through it’s acting National Publicity Secretary.
The statement stated: “In making helpless Nigerians refugees in their own country, the APC has shown the kind of inhumanity and wickedness that will be meted out on the people if it was elected into government at any level.
“The state government under the APC governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, in the most dehumanising manner, hounded innocent and helpless Nigerians legitimately living in Lagos State and hauled them out of the state like trash just to dump them at night at the Upper Iweka bridge in Onitsha, Anambra State.
“It is a public knowledge that these innocent Nigerians were picked up in different locations, detained in different detention centres created by the Lagos State government where they underwent diverse kinds of dehumanisation before their deportation. This is apparently responsible for the death of one of them last Saturday. The blood of the dead and that of any other person that dies as a result of this cruel treatment is in Fashola’s hands and no amount of excuses will erase this.
The APC, also issued a statement on Sunday, by its interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. “We are not saying Obi has no right to play politics, but he must fight clean and avoid any action that could hurt not just the enduring harmony between the Igbo and the Yoruba, but also the unity of the country.
“Anambra State government did not respond to requests by Lagos State to come and validate/identify the people who claimed to have come from Anambra. Had it done so, this issue could have been better managed.
“Also in 2011, Abia State Government sacked 3,000 non-indigenes (but fellow Igbo) from her work force and asked them to go back to their respective states, yet not even a whimper was heard from all those who are now raising hell over the ''deportation'' of 14 Anambra indigenes from Lagos.”