bcomputer101: The Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives
Congress on Tuesday exchanged words over alleged
plan by the opposition party, the APC, to Islamise
Nigeria.
The ruling party said that an Islamic cleric, Yusuf Garba,
and the Religious Equity Promotion Council exposed the
plot by the APC to balkanise the nation along religious
lines by imposing an Islamic agenda like the Egypt
Muslim Brotherhood.
But the APC said that the ruling party was behind the
alleged claim by the Islamic cleric and the group.
The cleric and the group had accused the APC of having
such an agenda as the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood in
Egypt, alleging further that this was the reason why the
party was having more Muslims than Christians among
members of its Interim Executive Committee.
However, the opposition party described the allegation
as untrue, saying it was part of the agenda of the ruling
PDP and the Presidency to discredit it, a plan which it
said would fail.
A statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the
party, Chief Olisa Metuh, in Abuja on Tuesday, further
claimed that the alleged plan by the opposition party
might have been responsible for its alleged preference
for violence.
Metuh said, “Nigerians are now no longer at a loss on
the real reason the APC has been desperate to hold
power.
“They now know why they have been moving round the
country organising protests and investing heavily in
planting seeds of discord and disagreements among the
people using their stock-in-trade of propaganda, deceit,
falsehood and doomsday prophesies.
“We thank all Nigerians, especially true Muslims for
exposing and rejecting the APC and its devilish plot.
Now that their plot has been exposed, we advise the
APC leaders to retrace their steps and purge themselves
of their evil machinations.”
He said that in the PDP, it was their “unshakable creed
that Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians irrespective of
religious, tribal, ethnic or regional affiliations.
“This country belongs to Muslims, Christians and citizens
of other religious persuasions alike and our people are
free to live and work in any part of the country and
aspire for any office irrespective of religious or ethnic
affiliations,” he added.
Metuh added that the PDP remained committed to
national unity as encapsulated in the party’s manifesto
and the ideals of its founding fathers, adding that
because of this, the party would resist anything or
anybody seeking to cause divisions among the people.
In his reaction, the Interim National Publicity Secretary
of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said both the PDP
and the Presidency were desperate to cause problem in
the polity.
He said the popularity of the opposition party was giving
the ruling party and the Presidency sleepless nights,
hence the resort to what he described as “amateurish
propaganda” against the party.
He nevertheless explained that out of 35 officers in the
Interim National Executive Committee of the party, 18
are Muslims while the remaining 17 are Christians.
Mohammed said, “But let me tell you that the allegation
is not true. We have made it clear that we have 18
Muslims and 17 Christians, making it 35 in the interim
executive of our party.
“Before the merger of the three political parties, they
said we were regional parties, but now that five
governors from the PDP are with us, they say we are a
religious party.
“Nigerians are smarter than that and they are not
worried by religion but unemployment, corruption,
missing billions of dollars from Nigeria National
Petroleum Corporation and the money used to buy
bullet proof cars by the Minister of Aviation.”


Source: www.punchng.com/news/pdp-apc-disagree-over-alleged-plan-to-islamise-nigeria/

How Far?:
Say "NO" to a sharia Nigeria.

jjcbuthot: Senseless ranting from PDP... How will a party in Nigeria has religious agenda?

GEJ card has always being ethno-religious sentiments. Where did we get it wrong to have allowed a naive person like GEJ to be president of Nigeria?

Young Money:
Am not surprise about this news the Muslim Brotherhood Party (APC) are the major problem of this country

National Chairman - Bisi Akande - Osun

Deputy National. Chairman North - Aminu Bello Masari – Katsina

Deputy National. Chairman South - Annie Okonkwo – Anambra

National Secretary - Tijjani Musa Tumsah – Yobe

Deputy. National. Secretary - Nasiru El-Rufai – Kaduna

National Vice Chairman NW- Salisu Inuwa Fage – Kano

National Vice Chairman NC- Ahmed Abdullahi Aboki – Nasarawa

National Vice Chairman NE - Umaru Duhu – Adamawa

National Vice Chairman SW - Niyi Adebayo – Ekiti

National Vice Chairman SS - Tom Ikimi – Edo

National Vice Chairman SE - Anyim Nyerere- Imo

National Legal Adviser - Muiz Banire – Lagos

Deputy National Legal Adviser- James Ocholi; SAN- Kogi

National Treasurer - Sadiya Umar Faruk – Zamfara

Deputy National Treasurer - Usman Suleiman Danmadami – Sokoto

National Financial Secretary- Shuaibu Musa – Zamfara

Deputy National Financial. Secretary - Sunday Chukwu – Ebonyi

National Organizing Secretary - Osita Izunaso – Imo

Deputy National Organizing Secretary - Lawal Shuaibu – Zamfara

National Publicity Secretary - Lai Mohammed – Kwara

Deputy National. Publicity Secretary - Isa Madu Chul – Borno

National Welfare Secretary - Emma Eneuku – Enugu

Deputy National Welfare Secretary - Romanus Egbuladike – Imo

National Auditor - Olisa-Emeka Akamukali – Delta

Deputy National Auditor - Bala Jibrin – Bauchi

National Women Leader - Madam Sharon Ikeazor - Anambra

Deputy National Women Leader - Amina Abdullahi – Gombe

National Youth Leader - Abubakar Lado – Niger

Deputy National. Youth Leader- Uzo Igbonwa - Anambra

National Ex- Officio - Yemi Sanusi – Ogun

National Ex- Officio – Miriki Ebikibina – Bayelsa

National Ex-Officio - Babachir D. Lawal – Adamawa

National Ex-Officio- Antibass El-Nathan- Taraba

National Ex- Officio - Nelson Alapa – Benue

National Ex- Officio - Jock Alamba - Plateau

the warrior72: Muslim brother-hood in Egypt will be a child's play to what APC has in store for Nigerians, if given this opportunity they crave for.

One thing to note in this party's interim leadership is, all the image-makers are all Muslim fanatics who has no respect or regard for other faith.

Mynd_44: This is the defense the PDP can bring? Rather petty

vedaxcool: PDP is finished and has resort to petty ethno-religious ploy to ensure they when they go down, Nigeria follows, but their evil plots shall fail! do I hear amen?

Newkidoo: Another stupid rant from our lovely PdP folks..
if APC is trying to islamize Nigeria, Y hasn't it started with Lagos.. Y hasn't fashola turn Lagos to only Muslim hood no Christians..
this ppl don't think b4 talking trash!! instead of this stupid PDP members to b working hard so that at d end of the day their job will speak for them instead they keep on talking trash each day.. they will soon be wiped out that is for sure..

size38: PDP always play it very dirty. At least majority of us are very educated to d level where we stand to understand when a political party or a politician is trying to use propaganda to discredit its opponent. PDP is only covering up its failure after 15 yrs in power. So can we now say because GEJ and majority of d office holder in PDP are christians therefore PDP is a christian party?

Abariwiseman: PDP is more liberal and organized than APC