ABUJA- NATIONAL leadership of the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP yesterday challenged the opposition party, the
All Progressives Congress, APC to a debate where achievements of President
Goodluck Jonathan led government would form the discourse.
According to PDP, the APC which is
the main opposition has no meaningful programme for Nigeria.
The leadership of the party also
insisted that all the forthcoming general elections must hold in the crisis
ridden North-East States in 2015 as scheduled despite the security challenges
in the Zone, just as PDP said that if governors of affected states had woken up
to the task of addressing the challenge of insurgency, the problem would not
have got to this magnitude.
Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states out
of the six states are the front line states and presently under state of
emergency.
Speaking yesterday on Kiss FM 99.9
and monitored by Vanguard in Abuja, PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief
Olisa Metuh stressed that there was no reason why the Independent National
Electoral Commission, INEC will not conduct elections in these areas as being
agitated in some quarters.
Metuh said, “after all these states
which are being controlled by the opposition had successfully conducted Council
elections at the peak of insurgents while bye-elections to the state and
National Assemblies were held during the period,so,what are they saying?
“If the State Governors in the
affected states have been alive to their responsibilities as being done by the
PDP controlled Federal Government,the situation would have been brought under
control,rather they are busy attacking the President and our Party as
responsible for the insecurity and that elections will not hold in the affected
states,elections must hold and PDP will spring surprises.
“That is a shallow and callous
thinking from the opposition,how can the President be sponsoring crisis in a
country he is presiding,even the President made it cleared on several occasions
that his presidential does not deserve the blood of any Nigeria, President
Goodluck Jonathan is a refined gentle man who will never have such a sinister
motive against anybody or his father land.
“What is regrettable is that those
leading members of the main opposition,the All Progressives Congress,APC,that
are making unguarded utterances against the President and the PDP were former
members of our party who got to where they are today on our platform before
they defected,one of then even said that if APC did not win the 2015
Presidential election,they will not go to court but will go and form a parallel
government.
“We have made our position known in
our Press statement of yesterday that enough is enough, PDP will no longer
tolerate such barbaric attacks again,if any one of them tries again,we will go
out in full swing and expose such a character.”
Speaking on the defection of the
Speaker, House of Representatives, Metuh noted that the position of the party
as to do with morality, integrity and Constitutional matters for Nigerians to
decide and more so that the matter was already before Court.
On the allegation by the APC that
the Police personnel aided thugs to invade the National Assembly last week to
harass its law makers’ members, PDP spokesperson who dismissed the allegation,
however urged members of the public to wait for the outcome of the police
investigation into the alleged invasion.
Metuh said, “What are they trying to
say again? National Assembly members belong to different political parties and
how can one identify their political parties,to the best of my knowledge they
don’t wear uniforms and how did APC come to a conclusion that their members
were the target?
Metuh who urged Nigerians to
disregard all the propaganda and blackmail of the APC,said,”APC is not a better
opposition we need in the country, it is out to derail our growing democracy,we
have said before and we are saying it again and we will continue to say it.”
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