The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
on Monday said the All Progressives
Congress (APC) and its leaders are
embittered that they have been
exposed for what they are.
PDP specifically claimed that leaders of the opposition party 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 PDP stated this while reacting to
former Vice President Atiku
Abubakar’s statement on the
political activities of PDP-led federal government, lambasting the PDP and
the Presidency for exploiting fault
lines in the country as a means of
diverting attention from it failures.
The PDP said while it does not wish
to join issues with the former vice president, one of the founding
fathers of the party. It however
asked Atiku to caution his media
managers to desist from associating
him with propaganda, political
mudslinging and character assassination that the APC has
become notorious for.
A statement by PDP spokesman, Olisa
Metuh said, “We also wish to put on
record that the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) has deliberately chosen not to take on the person of any of
its former members who are now in
the opposition.
for the simple reason that we were
members of the same large family,
differences in persuasions of today notwithstanding.
“However, it is shocking that the
leaders and members of the APC
have gone on rabid attack on the
Presidency and the leadership of the
PDP. ”In spite, we wish to state for the
avoidance of doubt that we stand by
our position that the APC is a party of
selfish, religious and ethnic bigots
pursuing a supporter of APC ideology.
“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.
“We wish to inform the APC that we shall not relent but continue in the
overall national interest to expose
their evil agenda including their use
of religion as a cover for narrow
political ambitions.” http://m.dailytimes.com.ng/article/we-stand-our-position-apc-–-pdp-tells-atiku