Armed security operatives on attacked the Lagos, western
Nigeria office of the main opposition party in the country, the All
Progressives Congress, APC, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Lai
Mohammed, has said.
Mohammed further said the security
men destroyed the party’s data base calling it an impunity carried too far and
a scandal that can best be compared with the Watergate Scandal of the United
States of America that led to the resignation of the country’s president,
Richard Nixon in 1974. A statement from him on Saturday
afternoon, said the APC strongly condemns the invasion of its Lagos offices by
security agents, adding that it was one of the worst political scandals in
Nigeria’s history.
In the statement Mohammed issued in
Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, the APC said: “the invasion could only be likened to the
Watergate Scandal that led to the resignation of US President Richard Nixon in
1974, as a result of the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National
Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington,
D.C., and the attempted cover-up of its involvement by the Republican Nixon
administration.” It therefore called for an
independent inquiry to fish out those who ordered “the needless and unprovoked
attack” on the offices of the APC and ensure that they face very serious
consequences, irrespective of their status.
“Saturday’s attack is another one in
the string of attacks and illegal actions of the PDP-led administration. The
attack was unwarranted and unjustifiable. “To attack one of the offices of the
opposition party, APC, where legitimate operations of the party were being
undertaken is an act of fascism and totalitarianism. To the point of
brigandage, the invasion of the APC centre is an assault on the APC and its
entire membership across the country. It must not go unpunished,” the APC said
