He said that recent events involving the opposition indicated that they were the real causative agents of the issues they accused the Federal Government and the PDP of
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Therefore, allegations by the All Progressives Congress, linking the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party and President Goodluck Jonathan to this are purely escapist and can only come from revisionists and reactionary forces, the unmasked pretenders to democracy
According to Abubakar, the PDP has officially and publicly through its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, labelled the APC the “Islamic Brotherhood Party of Nigeria” and the “Janjaweed Party”
The PDP said the APC statement betrays a party that has become unsettled and highly apprehensive following the increasing demand by the British parliamentarians for an enquiry into their links with the insurgency and violence ravaging Nigeria
Metuh said that it was on record that no administration in the recent history of Nigeria achieved in its first three years up to what President Jonathan has so far achieved despite unprecedented security challenges
Metuh said that the utterances of APC’s leadership with regards to the deployment of security personnel to the state to ensure peace in its governorship election was unfair
In a statement issued in Lagos on Monday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the statement issued by PDP’s publicity Secretary Olisa Metuh congratulating one of the contenders long before the Kano state government announced the new Emir was premeditated and calibrated to incite violence
The Peoples Democratic Party has called on the people of Gombe State to remain alert and resist any plot to…
Olisa Metuh, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, at a news briefing on Wednesday in Abuja, said the APC had remained “hypocritical in the face of loss of lives caused by the insurgents”
It said that Nigerians must realise that ordinary citizens had generally become targets of such attacks irrespective of religious and ethnic affiliation
The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, in a statement on Saturday described the development as unprecedented in contemporary history, adding that such “has restored the confidence reposed in the political class to provide leadership direction for the nation”
He said the widely publicized and very serious allegations made against him by the PDP and its spokesman, Olisa Metuh, to the effect that his utterances were responsible for the current state of insecurity and terrorism bedeviling Nigeria, were absolutely without basis
A statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, on Sunday said the ceaseless torrents of attacks and denigration of the executive arm of the Federal Government by the APC as well as the legislative gerrymandering whose intention is to cause confusion in the National Assembly and the renewed battle by the party on the judiciary are concrete elements of political nihilism
Metuh said that the comparison by the APC was “a tacit acknowledgment that it was planning to take Nigeria back to dictatorship”
The party said the tactics is to distract and detract the President, constrain the successful delivery of his transformation programme so as to portray him as non-performing and finally ridicule his score card when time reckons
Metuh said that the wish of the party was for the 14 aspirants cleared by the party to contest the primaries to come up with a unanimous consensus candidate
The statement particularly noted that neither Metuh nor anyone currently in position of authority in the PDP today was there when the PDP was being formed
Metuh added that the party would remain committed to curbing unemployment in line with its manifesto and the Transformation Agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan
The statement also said the Party’s NWC has approved the inauguration of a 16-man Caretaker Committee for Sokoto State
It pointed out that while the roadmap promised free education, students in Lagos State have been on the streets protesting imposition of high school fees by the state government