ACN Condemns Arrest Of Its Former Scribe, Calls For His Release

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has strongly condemned Tuesday’s arrest of its former National Secretary, Dr. Usman Bugaje, by the SSS over an interview he granted a radio station on the ongoing fuel price hike protests across the country, and called for his immediate release.

In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party expressed concern that the Federal Government, having boxed itself into a tight corner due to its obnoxious, anti-people policy, is now baring its fangs at perceived enemies, especially members of the opposition, civil society and the unions.

”There is nothing that Dr. Bugaje said in that interview that has not been said many times over by other Nigerians since the government decided to over-reach itself by inflicting avoidable pain on the people in the name of fuel subsidy removal.

”Perhaps Dr. Bugaje’s only sin is that he is a member of the ACN. But our party is not responsible for the unenviable situation in which this rudderless government has found itself. In fact, had the government listened to our wise counsel, it would have avoided the troubles it had now brought on itself,” the party said.

ACN wondered why the federal government is dissipating its energy on targeting and harassing the opposition, when it is confronted with monumental problems, including the worsening cases of insecurity of lives and property, most of which the administration brought upon itself.