…says appeal ‘reckless, shameless, unpatriotic’
Ruling All Progressives Congress has lambasted the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party for calling for what it described as a foreign invasion of Nigeria.
APC National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, in a statement on Tuesday, described the PDP’s call as reckless and unpatriotic.
The newly elected National Chairman of the PDP, Tanimu Turaki, had, while addressing journalists on Tuesday over the crisis ravaging his party, called on the United States to intervene in Nigeria to save the country from alleged “Christian genocide” and to protect democracy.
But the APC in its reaction, said Turaki appeared desperate, at his wit’s end, confused, incoherent, and grossly lacking in stamina and capacity to manage his party’s crisis.
According to the ruling party, Nigerians expected that Turaki would set himself on an urgent peace-building mission to bring PDP warring factions together in dialogue towards finding possible pathways to peace and reconciliation.
Morka said, “Turaki’s first official act as factional chairman was his call for foreign invasion of Nigeria as a solution to the self-inflicted internal crisis of his PDP. This is not only reckless and unpatriotic but shameless and it is a dangerous threat to national security and sovereignty.
“Under the PDP’s 16 years in power, with its ruthless subversion of opposition parties, there was never a call for foreign invasion of Nigeria as a solution to crises within opposition parties of that era.
“We trust the international community to dismiss the PDP’s disgraceful and unpatriotic call as a pitiful distraction from the failure of its internal democracy and embarrassing disintegration.”
