David Lawani, Abuja
The All-Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday carpeted the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a sore loser, describing its antics as one that will go down in history as its records of recklessness.
The APC also said nothing was encouraging for any party to want to emulate the PDP over an earlier statement linking its fold with an attempt to botch President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to the historic state to commission projects.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, the APC said the attack carried on President Muhammadu Buhari had crossed the line of fair campaign engagement into grievous culpable criminality.
The dart was contained in a statement issued by the PDP accusing the ruling party, APC, of “actively instigating and sponsoring fringe violent anti-social conduct by paid urchins during presidential engagements” in Kano.
It will be recalled that the president was in Kano on Sunday, January 29, 2023, at the instance of Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, to commission eight legacy projects, and a world-class Cancer Centre.
Morka said, “2023 will go down in our country’s political history as the year of unmitigated infamy for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). No one would have thought the PDP capable of outdoing its record of reckless, mindless, and despicable undertakings in and out of governance.
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“The PDP has tossed every rule of law, ethical standards, morality, decency, civility, and decorum in the trash bin in its deviant obsession for power. Just when you think the degenerate PDP has reached the abyss of low, they burrow even deeper into crevices of shame.
“A statement issued by the PDP on the President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent visit to Kano is nothing short of a confessional statement of conspiracy to commit a treasonable felony. By actively instigating and sponsoring fringe violent anti-social conduct by paid urchins during presidential engagements in Kano, the PDP has crossed the line of fair campaign engagement into grievous culpable criminality. This is unacceptable and demands urgent law enforcement investigation and prosecution of all participants in this high crime.”
It added, “President Muhammadu Buhari was in Kano on Sunday, January 29, 2023, at the instance of the high-achieving governor of the state, Alhaji Abdullahi Ganduje, to commission eight legacy projects, including a world-class Cancer Centre for which the good people of Kano State are immensely grateful.
“Ostensibly, the PDP is morbidly terrified by the cozy and strong relations between our Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and President Muhammadu Buhari. As the leader of our party, President Buhari’s universe of goodwill and massive grassroots following inure to the benefit of our visionary presidential candidate.
“The PDP is distraught and dejected by the bleak and irrecoverable hopelessness of its chances in the next general election. However, that does not give it a right to incite and procure treasonable acts in a desperate last-ditch and orchestrated plot to incite Nigerians against our party.
“The Nigerian electorate is smart, mature, sensible, and discerning. We are convinced they find the PDP’s conduct disturbing, appalling, repulsive, and pitiful and will continue to ignore the party’s blatant falsehood and criminal behaviour and reject the party and all its candidates from top to bottom.
“Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is, and remains, an open and shut case for the Office of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. We urge the good Nigerian electorate to vote for our Presidential Candidate and all candidates of our great Party,” Morka stated.
Earlier, the PDP had condemned the attack on President Buhari on Monday in Kano State by miscreants allegedly sponsored by the presidential candidate of the ruling APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
PDP spokesman, Debo Ologunagba, in a statement, said the ‘organised attack’ on the person of the president was out rightly treasonable and a sacrilegious assault on the country’s sovereignty which must be condemned by all.
“Our party is alarmed that this attack is part of the APC presidential candidate’s alleged plot to undermine the presidency, cause confusion, trigger violence in the country, disrupt the conduct of the 2023 general elections, and derail our democracy; having realized that he cannot win in a peaceful, free and fair electoral process.
“The PDP invites Nigerians to note how Governor Abdullahi Ganduje attempted to abridge President Buhari’s movement and even tried to stop him from visiting Kano State,” he said.
