Press Statement
2019: Hold APC
Responsible Should Harm Befall Atiku, Others, PDP Insists
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the All
Progressives Congress (APC) should be held responsible should any harm befall
former Vice President Abubakar Atiku or any of the PDP Presidential aspirants
ahead of the 2019 general elections.
PDP's position is predicated on
its comprehensive consideration of all issues relating to the threats to the
life of the former Vice President, as well as similar threats and harassments
of other presidential aspirants in our fold, just as our party places all these
threats at the doorstep of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC.
The PDP do not take these threats
as a ruse and we demand an open inquest into all the issues raised by Alhaji
Atiku Abubakar in his petition to President Buhari.
It is public knowledge that the
APC has been on frenetic mode over the caliber and popularity of Presidential
aspirants arraying in our party platform.
The APC knows that President
Buhari is no match for any of our aspirants hence the resort to violence,
harassment and death threats, with a view to frighten and put our presidential
aspirants out of circulation ahead of the 2019 elections.
Nigerians are already aware of
how the APC-led Government has been using security and anti-corruption
agencies, particularly the Police, Department of State Services (DSS) and the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to harass and hound
presidential hopefuls and perceived political opponents of the President, as
well as the members of our party on various trumped-up allegations and charges.
The dysfunctional APC has become
distraught by the resurge of Nigerians to our platform since the commencement
of electioneering activities, while the APC national secretariat and its state
offices have become deserted like graveyards.
Rather than accepting the reality
of their failures ahead of the 2019 elections, the APC has scaled up its
proclivities for violence against the opposition.
Only last week, the APC unleashed
their thugs to attack our national secretariat with charms and dangerous
weapons and attempted to disrupt our activities. This is in addition to series
of other attacks on our members in various parts of the country by APC
sponsored thugs.
The PDP wants the APC to note
that, in all, it is fighting a lost battle. The PDP family will never be cowed
or intimidated by the evil machinations of the APC as we stand shoulder to
shoulder with majority of Nigerians, across the board, in this national
emergency of ending the misrule of the Buhari-led administration, which has
caused so much harm to our dear nation.
Signed:
Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary
National Publicity Secretary
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
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