PDP insists that APC has evil tendencies

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has once again cautioned the All Progressives Congress (APC), to purge itself of evil tendencies and focus on how to build a strong and united nation instead of promoting violence and bloodshed in a desperate bid for power.

The party said the call became necessary, citing the stand of President Goodluck Jonathan that, “his ambition is not worth spilling the blood of any Nigerian as instructive.”

The party insisted that the actions, utterances and body language of the APC have reportedly continued to give it away as the face behind the ugly mask of insurgency in some parts of the country, dismissing its denial of complicity as an ill articulated afterthought.

According to a statement issued yesterday in Abuja and signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, the PDP and Nigerians do not need further proof on the unholy alliance between the APC and insurgency.

Restating that the PDP firmly believes in the plurality of Nigeria’s political space, knowing full well the cardinal role the opposition plays in any sustainable democracy,  the party said it was however an outright coup against democracy for  the APC to employ deceit, lies and insurgency as means of achieving political control.

“When we accused the APC of being behind insurgency, we did not speak in vain and when we summarised the manifesto of the party as a product of Janjaweed ideology, we have verifiable reasons,” PDP said.

The statement argued that it was not a coincidence that after General Muhammadu Buhari beckoned on his supporters to go on lynching spree should he lose the 2011 presidential election; an unprecedented violence broke out, claiming the lives of hundreds of innocent Nigerians. It noted that the Sheik Lemu committee which investigated this carnage, unequivocally established Buhari’s culpability.

“Besides, the allegory of the bloody monkey and baboon in respect of the 2015 election, which is still way ahead, by the same General, is still very fresh in the minds of Nigerians”

“The serial threats of violence should President Jonathan contest in 2015, including the most recent prophecy of violent deaths and destructions in 2015 by Nasiru El Rufai are not slips from elements at the periphery but snips from characters who know more than ordinary Nigerians, the reasons behind the mindless carnage in the country.”

“And when the APC boasted earlier in 2013 even before it could secure its name from counter claims that insurgency would end within 100 days of its leadership of the nation,  Nigerians recalled immediately that the chief priest who dines with the deity knows the right libation to appease the gods. Insurgency is APC and APC is insurgency.”