The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described as undemocratic and illegal, the threat by the Lagos State Police Commissioner to stop the February 6 planned protest against the Federal Government by musician, Innocent Idiba (aka, Tuface).

In an interview on Thursday, PDP National Publicity Secretary, Prince Dayo Adeyeye said the protesters should defy any such order by the police.

According to him, preventing people from engaging in peaceful assembly is not only undemocratic but against the spirit and letter of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).

“It is illegal and very undemocratic; the people have the right to protest, the freedom of assembly and freedom to protest are two strong ingredients of democracy.

“In America, people have been protesting everywhere and nobody has made any effort to curtail it or to ban them or prevent them from holding,” he stated.

Adeyeye noted that if Nigerians were not denied their right to protest under previous administrations of President Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan why should they be stopped under the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government?

“These were the same people organising protests in those days against PDP governments. This shows clearly that we are now under a dictatorial regime.

“It is an illegal ban and I will urge the organisers of the protest to go ahead with it and defy the police ban because it is wrong,” he added.