The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation on Wednesdayrubbished the claim by the opposition All Progressives Congress that the Dr. Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government was plotting to put an interim national government in place.
Similarly, the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation faulted the claim by the APC that the Federal Government was not ready for the scheduled February 14 and 28 general elections.
Rather, the Campaign Organisation declared that the PDP was more than ready for the February 14 and 28 polls.
Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday, the Director of Media and Publicity of the PDPPCO, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, declared that the APC’s allegations are disingenuous, tenuous and shameful.
Fani-Kayode maintained that the allegations by the APC rather than elevate the party, has further reduced it to a gang of desperadoes seeking power by all means and simply for the sake of it.
He stated that it is common knowledge that the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria does not provide for the Interim National Government contraption that the APC talks about.
According to Fani-Kayode: “APC’s National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has taken it upon himself 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.
“We wish to state that our party, the PDP and our government under President Jonathan, do not superintend over electoral processes and elections in this country.
“There is an independent election body in place-the Independent National Electoral Commission under the chair of Professor Attahiru Jega.
“It is within the purview of INEC to make decisions about the holding and/or postponement of elections. It is not within the functions of the PDP or the Federal Government.
“We take exception to the fact that they keep on making this allegation deliberately to provoke us. When they say that the PDP is controlling INEC they have become nothing but victims of their own delusions and they are obviously suffering from terrible hallucination.
“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 forbids, 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.
“The APC can go on its illusive flight of self-importance, but it is now increasingly clear to every Nigerian at home and in the Diaspora as well as members of the International Community that the opposition party is excessively desperate for presidential power and has imported unrestrained violence into our body-politic.
“The truth is that they cannot win the forthcoming elections and they know it. That is why they have come up with the allegation of Interim National Government.
“We repeat: those who want Interim National Government are the APC and some elements that are secretly behind their party. Their plan is to prepare a fertile ground upon which to discredit our anticipated victory at the polls, unleash anarchy and violence on the country after they lose so that we would not be able to enjoy our victory.
“By the grace of God and the support of a vast majority of Nigerians, their plan will fail.
The nation is already subjected to a dress rehearsal of the monumental violence that the APC is planning. You can see how the party has attacked virtually everyone except itself.
“It is time that all Nigerians of goodwill told the APC that enough is enough. They must stop intimidating people and they must know their place.
Indeed, the APC should stop alleging that everybody has a hidden agenda except for its own leaders and members.”
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