APC is party of the wicked,says PDP

 The Federal Government has described the newly registered All Progressives Congress (APC) as lacking in “definite programmatic agenda.” The mega opposition party was registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) last Wednesday.

Also, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP)  National Working Committee (NWC) which had last week congratulated the opposition political parties behind APC, also yesterday dismissed the APC as a platform for the wicked.

Senior Special Adviser, Public Affairs  to the President, Dr Doyin Okupe, in a statement yesterday, claimed the APC is a political party put together by politicians desperate for power in 2015, claiming that the new party has no remarkable vision for the electorate.

“The membership and composition of the APC is nothing progressive. They are ideologically ill-defined and seem to have come together for only one purpose which is to grab power from the PDP and united on one sentiment which is their peculiar hatred for the person of President Goodluck Jonathan.

“Isn’t it surprising too that since their coming together, Nigerians are yet to know what the APC stands for in terms of definite programmatic agenda? What do they have that is better than the PDP? They have no official manifestoes rather, what we hear from one leader is a sharp contradiction from what we hear from another,” he said.

Okupe, alleging that no notable politicians from the North could be linked with the new political party, said that the forces promoting the APC were behind the post- election violence making it impossible for the President to govern. “Is there an offence in being a President from a minority tribe?

Those who cooperate with them from the North are not true mainstream northern politicians, but rather anarchists and irredentists, who pursue political power based purely on ethnic sentiments.

“From the first day of the Jonathan presidency, these people have tried all methods to suffocate his administration and make it impossible for him to govern. Immediately the President was sworn in, he was made to contend with major post-election violence unprecedented in the annals of our political history. This paved the way for the escalation of the Boko Haram insurgency, also to the level that was totally and absolutely unimaginable; reducing previous episodes like the Maitatsine riots and similar previous sectarian violence in the North look like a child’s play,” Okupe said.

In its statement, the PDP’s NWC blamed the recent deportation of Anambra State indigenes from Lagos State on the APC.

Acting National Publicity Secretary, Tony Caesar Okeke, said the recent deportation of Anambra indigenes from Lagos “in violation of their constitutionally-guaranteed rights to reside in any part of the federation, betrays the wickedness of the APC-led government and shows the party as that of bigots with the agenda to promote sectionalism and stoke the fire of division among Nigerians”.

The PDP claimed  “many of the deportees were unjustly arrested and detained for several months in detention centres before being deported”. It  urged Nigerians and all lovers of the country” to note the actions of the APC-led government and ensure that the party is not voted for at any level in the country.

It said, “the nation risks being balkanized if APC is allowed anywhere near the government at the centre.”

Culled from The Sun