Stop attacking Jonathan, PDP warns APC
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has called on the the All Progressives Congress (APC) to stop its sustained and unwarranted attacks on the person and office of the President, Goodluck Jonathan.
In a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja, on Tuesday, its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, the party declared that it would no longer condone such a “deliberate, unwarranted and sustained vicious attacks on the person and office of the president,” which, according to it, ''is the institution of democracy and the unity of the nation.”
The party warned that it “will no longer fold its hands while the desperate desire of the APC for power unchains undisciplined impulses and actions posing a threat to the very survival of democracy and the nation.”
The statement reads, “the PDP has been watching carefully as the rank and file of the APC, the governors, party leaders, presidential hopeful and even sidekicks run amok, competing in a heavily subjective castigation of President Goodluck Jonathan with incendiary utterances, sign posting its plans for the dastardly when it loses in next year's general election.
“However, patriotism, the cardinal value of our great party, indeed, the price of our custodianship of the mandate of over 160 million Nigerians calls for vigilance, maturity and responsibility, hence our restraints in the face of the naked lies and recklessness of the APC.”
“We had thought that the silver hair of its top leaders would caution the thoughtless delinquency of its youngsters. Unfortunately, the recklessness of the old is in competition with the imprudence of the young. What a shame the APC has turned!
“Our decent political campaigns focusing on the achievements of our party at various levels of government should have served as a pointer to the APC on the need to maintain political decorum and primacy of national interest in the build-up to the forthcoming elections.
“It is, however, unfortunate that the APC has refused to shed its penchant for lies, deceit, propaganda, violence and blackmail as the center piece of their agenda and message to Nigerians.
“This disposition has led the APC to work in cahoots with the enemies of Nigeria in an attempt to wreck our democracy and throw the nation into chaos, hence the urgency of the need to warn that ''enough is now enough.”
“We know that the aim of the APC is to set the stage for violence, instill fear in Nigerians, discourage them from actively participating in the electoral process, thereby, giving room for them to perpetrate all manners of electoral malpractices (as evidenced by their cloning of the permanent voter cards) which is the only way they may hope to achieve political power in Nigeria.
“This position is reinforced by their constant threat to cause violent pandemonium when they lose the elections.
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