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2015: You’re In ‘one-chance’ Bus, PDP Replies Atiku by Monimatic(m): 6:10am On Jul 22, 2014
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP),
National Working Committee (NWC),
has declared that former vice-
president Atiku Abubakar was
keeping wrong company ahead of
2015 general elections.
Atiku had on Sunday accused the
PDP and the Presidency of creating
division and animosity in the country
by linking chieftains of All
Progressives Congress (APC), with
terrorism. The former vice-president
noted that such accusations by the
ruling party was meant to divert
attention from its failure to deliver
democracy dividends to Nigerians.
But the national leadership of the
PDP yesterday insisted that the APC
has been using religion to foster
narrow political ambition.
A statement by its national publicity
secretary, Olisa Metuh, submitted
that while it would not want to join
issues with the former vice-president,
it would not be cowed, nor relent in
its insistence “that the APC is a party
of selfish, religious and ethnic bigots
pursuing a supporter of APC ideology.
“The APC and its leaders are
embittered that the PDP machinery
has been able to effectively expose
and profile them as they truly are.
They are in pains that Nigerians now
know that the APC has no agenda,
rather a platform for selfish
individuals pursuing personal and
parochial agenda using blackmail,
propaganda and promotion of
violence as means to achieve
political control.
“The APC leaders are bitter because
they have been confronted with a
PDP that is not afraid to label them in
their true colour despite personal
threats, media attacks and character
assassination to cow and deter us.
“On the issue of APC having an
Islamic agenda, it is known to all and
sundry that the PDP never labeled 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 (REPC), 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 any body
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.
“On the other hand, the PDP has
committed Muslims who are
worshipping Allah in truth more than
the APC. Many of the founding fathers
and critical stakeholders of the PDP
are Muslims. The leader of the
administration of the PDP is a
committed and dedicated Muslim.
We have responsible and committed
Muslims as ministers, state
governors, legislators and among our
leaders at the national, state, local
government and ward levels across
the country.
“In this regard, no party can be said
to have better respect for Islam than
the PDP. Our quarrel with the APC is
its use of religion and ethnicity to
canvass for votes and membership, a
practice which is clearly inimical to
the progress and development of our
democracy.
“In spite of any personal interest, the
PDP as a platform remains better
than the APC. Indeed, the APC is not
an alternative. It has no vision and is
completely lacking in ideology. It is
unfortunate that our former members
have chosen to board the wrong
vehicle, indeed, ‘a one-chance bus’.”

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