Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors on Tuesday condemned the reported invasion of Akwa Ibom State Government House by operatives of Department of State Security (DSS).

The governors, under the aegis of PDP Governors Forum, made this known after a meeting of the forum held in the Bayelsa State Governor’s office in Yenagoa.

The PDP governors led by their Chairman and Governor of Ondo State, Mr. Olusegun Mimiko, condemned in strong terms, the alleged invasion of Akwa Ibom State Government House by DSS.

Mimiko, who read the communique of the forum to journalists, said the invasion was against the spirit and tenets of democratic norms and tradition.

Mimiko said: “We insist that the trend must stop henceforth. No democracy survives without a viable opposition in any part of the world and we must also remember to remind the APC that they are the real beneficiaries of the liberal democratic ethos of the PDP.

“We once more advise the DSS to preoccupy itself with the task of ensuring internal security and desist from daily harassing and intimidating members of the opposition.

“We implore the international community, the civil society organisations and human rights activists to call the All Progressives Party led Federal Government to order.

“And to insist that it respects the well entrenched democratic tradition.

“We all have a duty to prevent what looks to us like a steady slide of this country into dictatorship,” Mimiko said.

Mimiko further said the PDP governors were worried and regarded the reported invasion on Akwa Ibom State Government as an assault on democracy.

He said that what happened in Akwa Ibom spelt doom and posed serious danger to the country's fledgling democracy.

He alleged that the action was one of the continuous attempts by the APC-controlled government to stifle the opposition.

Out of the 13 PDP governors in the country, two governors and four deputy governors were present at the meeting.

The governors were Mimiko and the host, Governor Seriake Dickson.

Deputy Governors of Delta, Mr Kingsley Otuaro, Abia, Chris Akomas, Ebonyi, Mr Kelechi Igwe and Kogi, and Mr Yomi Awoniyi.

Governors of Enugu, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Cross River, Benue, Ekiti and Taraba States were absent at the meeting and did not send any representatives.

•Photo shows Governor Mimiko.

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