. The Peoples Democratic Party has denied linking the All
Progressives Congress to any Islamic agenda.
The ruling party, in a statement issued by its National
Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh in Abuja on Monday,
was replying 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 an
Islamic agenda.
Apart from this, Atiku, who was one of the founding fathers
of the PDP but now a chieftain of the APC, said that the
ruling party was using the tactics to divert attention of
Nigerians from the Federal Government’s ineptitude and
apathetic posture to corruption and insecurity.
Apart from this, he also said that 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, he (Atiku) should not
allow his media team to destroy him.
Metuh warned Atiku’s media team to desist from
associating him with propaganda, political mudslinging and
character assassination that the APC had become notorious
for.
“He said that 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 the APC having an Islamic
agenda, it is known to all and sundry that 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 the 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.”
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