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Uche Secondus, former acting chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says his party is in support of President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti – corruption campaign, but due process and rule of law must be followed.

In an interview with Punch, Secondus alleged experiences over the last one year of the current administration have revealed that Buhari’s aim is to “kill” PDP.

Secondus said the EFCC has turned itself to “the judge, jury and a court, becoming a law unto itself”.

“There is absolute absence of the rule of law in the pursuit of this anti-corruption crusade,” he said.

“We in the PDP are in total support of the anti-corruption fight but we believe that due process and the rule of law are not being followed.

“We are not in a garrison command structure, a person can be invited or arrested if he resists but the rule of law must be followed.

“We know there are ex-governors who are ministers now, why are they not probing them? Why are they not inviting them? It is absolutely wrong.

“The partiality is obvious now, and Nigerians know, the world now knows that the agenda of this government is to kill the PDP”.

Secondus said it was wrong to say that the PDP feels comfortable with corruption and had no interest in fighting it.

“This is wrong, absolutely wrong. Let me ask this question, if the PDP had no interest in fighting corruption, would we have set up the EFCC, ICPC (Independent Corrupt Practices Commission) and all other institutions?” he asked.

“All these institutions were set up by the then President Olusegun Obasanjo who headed a PDP-led government”.