The Peoples Democratic Party has denied linking the All Progressives Congress to any Islamic agenda.The ruling party, in a statement byits National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, in Abuja on Monday, was reacting to a statement credited to a former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in which he asked the ruling party to stop linking the opposition party with Islamic agenda.Apart from this, Atiku, who was one of the founding fathers of the PDP but now a chief of the APC, said the ruling party was using thetactics to divert attention of Nigerians from the Federal Government ineptitude and apathetic posture to corruption and insecurity.Apart from this, he also said no responsible government should seek to create division, suspicion and animosity among its citizens by linking the opposition leaders with terrorist activities or accusing them of harbouring extremists.Metuh, in his reply, said though the party would not want to take on the former Vice President, and warned that he (Atiku) should not allow his media team to destroy him, said there was the need to put the record straight.While acknowledging that Atiku was among the founding fathers of the ruling party, Metuh said the former Vice President should “caution his media managers to desist from associating him with propaganda, political mudslinging and character assassination that the APC has become notorious for.”He said it was wrong for anyone to say the PDP had accused the APC of having an Islamic agenda, saying its past reference on the issue was as a result of an allegation made by an individual against the opposition party.Metuh said, “On the issue of APC having an Islamic agenda, it is known to all and sundry that the the PDP never labelled it as such. We merely, in our statement of January 7, 2014, drew the attention of Nigerians to the revelation by an Islamic cleric, Ambassador Yusuf Garba and the Religious Equity Promotion Council that the APC was seeking to impose on Nigeria, an agenda akin to that of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.“In any case, we insist that it is completely out of place for anybody to associate APC with Islam which is a religion of peace and does not preach violence, greed, destruction and lust for power which are the trademarks of the APC.“We restate that some of these APC leaders, by their utterances and conducts, are not good Muslims. Besides, we cannot associate a party, made up of anarchists bound together by the lust for power and desperation to rule by any means including promoting violence and division inNigeria, with Islam.”More Stories in News
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Fvckers!

I believe that Metuh has realized his mistake of constantly referring to APC as Islamic Party. A mistake that can affect PDP in 2015 presidential election because it is a statement that insults the sensibility of Muslims. Now, he has to start praising Islam.

Will he also deny he didn't refer APC as a party of supporters of APC?

Olisa Metuh should be giving a gold medal a certified incorrigible liar!

You don't have to say it, we know what supporter of APC is all about?

this 'orisa mai tu sah' needs to undergo brain transplant before 2015 general elections.

Which agenda do they have before?

Melu liar peed in his pants. He is afraid of backlash and litigation.

Save us all this lies Metuh. You can only repeat thos lies to your master GEJ and not us

> Dem go show jonathan in 2015!

Why did he take back his words? I have said this times without number : Jonathan's bigoted sycophants are only making things worse for him by attempting to sideline some groups of people.

berem: Will he also deny he didn't refer APC as a party of supporters of APC?

I think the supporter of APC tag will remain untill APC stops acting like Sudanese.

Olisa Metuh should be giving [size=15pt]a gold medal a certified incorrigible liar![/size]

If Metuh gets Gold what will Liar Mohammed get, a chieftancy title abi?

Madam with due respect is always advisable not to talk from the anus, when you talk from the anus its likely to be full of shiit.

Is this not the same Metuh that described APC manifesto as a product of “supporter of APC ideology”.

I ask,which 'supporter of APC' was Metuh referring to? From which dictionary did he derive the word?

Clearly,Metuh's 'supporter of APC' was derived from the islamic militia that operate in Darfur, western Sudan, and eastern Chad .

Today, 'supporter of APC' is now freely used on social media to refer to APC no thanks to Metuh and his party,PDP.

It is the PDP,not the APC, that actually wants to divide Nigerians along religion line to feather its nest.
Today,most Christians(the gullible ones) hate the APC not because they believe APC has nothing to offer the Nigerian masses but because of the well orchestrated propaganda sold to them by the PDP.