*Describes call as suspicious
*Says voters won’t forget PDP’s crimes by its scaremongering
The DEFENDER reports that PDP has called either for sack or resignation of virtually all the nation’s institutional heads from the service chiefs to the Customs Comptroller General, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and currently particularly eyeing the possibility of removing the IGP and the INEC boss.
Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as suspicious, call by main opposition and former ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for resignation of Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, and Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Ibrahim Kpotun Idris.
The DEFENDER reports that PDP has called either for sack or resignation of virtually all the nation’s institutional heads from the service chiefs to the Customs Comptroller General, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and currently particularly eyeing the possibility of removing the IGP and the INEC boss.
But The APC, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu on Sunday, lampooned the opposition it said “has now becomes a caricature of a political party” having, as once a boisterous party, “undermined the country for 16 years through mindless undemocratic actions”.
According to the statement, copy of which was sent to The DEFENDER, the APC chief spokesman, Onilu, said the latest outburst by the PDP was yet another reminder of how its government serially abused state institutions in the pursuit of selfish political and economic interests, adding that the PDP, interestingly, “is now being haunted by its sordid past and the ruinous party is now scampering from its own shadow.”
Ostensibly angered, the ruling party expressed sadness that the opposition hounds have continued to take Nigerians for granted, thinking by embarking on scaremongering, the voters could forget their wanton crimes.
“We are amused by the latest utterances of the Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus calling on both the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Yakubu Mahmoud and the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Idris Ibrahim to resign on account of the PDP’s baseless suspicions ahead of the 2019 General Elections.
“It is a pity that the once boisterous PDP, having undermined the country for 16 years through mindless undemocratic actions, has now become a caricature of a political party.
“This latest outburst is yet another reminder of how the PDP government serially abused state institutions in the pursuit of selfish political and economic interests. PDP is now being haunted by its sordid past and the ruinous party is now scampering from its own shadow.
“It is sad that the PDP hounds have continued to take Nigerians for granted, thinking by embarking on scaremongering, the voters could forget their wanton crimes.
“Nigerians are not gullible, it is now apparent that the PDP in a bid to hide their inadequacies and undesirability as elections approaches has chosen to populate the public space with unfounded allegations.
“The All Progressives Congress (APC) continues to stand for and would defend a participatory democracy where elections are transparent, credible, free and fair. We also call on relevant agencies to monitor the PDP as its recent utterances are a red flag. We must prevent a reoccurrence of the PDP’s typical undemocratic practices during elections. Never again will a selfish few distort the wishes of the electorate.”
