The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Organisation has asked the All Progressives Congress (APC) to leave it out of the controversy of an interim government, stating that it is alien to the nation’s constitution.
The ruling party also alleged that there is ongoing discrimination against non-indigenes of Lagos state in the distribution of the Permanent Voter Cards and the burning of voter cards belonging to non-indigenes in some states.
Addressing news men on Wednesday, the spokesman of the PDP Campaigns, Femi Fani-Kayode, said that APC and its Presidential Campaign Organisation have inundated the Nigerian people with allegations that the PDP-controlled Federal Government is not ready for the scheduled February 14 and 28 general elections and that it is plotting to scuttle the process with a view to emplacing an Interim National Government.
Fani-Kayode therefore declared, “These allegations are disingenuous, tenuous and shameful. Rather than elevate the APC, this resort to mendacity and scare-mongering further reduces them to a gang of desperadoes seeking power by all means and simply for the sake of it. This is because it is common knowledge that the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria does not provide for the Interim Nation Government contraption that the APC talks about.”
He said that the APC and its spokesman, Lai Mohammed, have taken it upon themselves to play the devil’s advocate by building up seemingly scary scenarios to create tension, cause panic in the polity and incite supporters of his party and well-meaning Nigerians against the Federal Government, President Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP.
Accordingly, he said, “The PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation calls on the Nigerian people to discountenance APC and Lai Mohammed’s petty lies and they can be rest assured that all arms of government are patriotically committed to discharging their constitutionally-prescribed responsibilities and duties.
“We believe that the APC’s unconscionable alarm is part of its characteristic and habitual propaganda through which it has over and over again imposed its skewed agenda on many undiscerning Nigerians. We are constrained to take this opportunity to paint an accurate portrait of the APC and its leaders. It is time for us to expose them for what they really are. The truth is that they are agents of destabilisation.
“They comprise of retrogressive elements that are desperate to take power just for the sake of it. If they ever succeed in taking power in this country, God forbid, they will take the country back into darkness because they represent darkness and everything that is reprehensible.
“We, as a party, will not allow them to damage the good work that the PDP, most especially the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, has done to transform our nation.” – Thisday.
