Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Interim National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress in a statement issued on Thursday in Gusau, Zamfara State, urged the Peoples Democratic Party to stop playing politics with the lives of Nigerians.
The party in the statement pointed out that it was wrong, and irresponsible and uncharitable for the ruling PDP to make any attempt aimed at making political gains from the current insecurity challenges facing the country.
It said Nigerians are too discerning to be deceived by PDP’s baseless finger-pointing and name calling as displayed by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh.
Responding, Metuh, who accused the APC of trying to attribute its frustrations on innocent Nigerians, said: "Their statements are as ugly as their looks and their actions. They are carrying their personal frustrations on Nigerians; we are a peaceful nation, they should leave us alone".
APC went ahead to explain that Nigerians who watched the live telecast of the party's rally in Ado-Ekiti on Wednesday, should be able to know that APC tried to make the rally as sober as possible following the jos bombing, adding that the party was not left with choice than to proceed with the rally because INEC could not be compelled to change the timetable of the Ekiti polls.
"Despite the presence of musical groups and other performers, all musical breaks in the programme and all other scheduled performances were cut out, while the rally itself was drastically abridged. There is no doubt that the PDP’s spokesman did not even bother to get the full details of the rally before rushing to the media in his usual jumpy self.
"Mr. Olisah Metuh is definitely eager to act like an opposition spokesman rather than the spokesman for the ruling party. This is not a problem as his party is definitely fighting hard to trade places with the APC as the main opposition party come 2015. We can only appeal to Mr. Metuh to wait for a few more months and, in the meantime, start learning the ropes as an opposition spokesman" part of the statement read.
The party equally reminded the PDP that the Ekiti rally was not the same thing as the "illegal rally in Kano, where President Goodluck Jonathan led other PDP leaders to engage in Azonto dance less than 24 hours after 75 of his compatriots were killed in the first Nyanya bombing".
The party further went ahead to distinguish Ekiti rally from the failure of leadership in the country, noting that the cluelessness and the callousness portrayed by PDP leaders, comprised President Jonathan and Mrs. Kema Chikwe, after the kidnapping of the schoolgirls in Chibok, Benue State.
It also alleged that the President has failed to live up to his presidential billing by visiting Chibok, while the Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces is scared of a group of terrorists.
"It is therefore hypocritical, insincere, thoughtless, insensitive and uncaring for the PDP – a party without soul or conscience, a party under whose watch over 12,000 Nigerians have been bombed into smithereens by Boko Haram alone – to be seeking to paint the APC in its own warped and grossly distorted image" the statement said.
The statement also pointed out that while the PDP claimed to have cancelled its rally in Ekiti because of the Jos bombing, it had continued "to run its shameless adverts on TV comparing President Jonathan with legends of their time like Martin Luther King Jnr.; Nelson Mandela; Lee Kuan Yew and Barrack Obama, even as Nigerians continue to die daily due to the President’s globally-acknowledged incompetence, ineptitude and cluelessness".
No comments:
Post a Comment