In a statement issued in Lagos, on Sunday, by its national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said it was, therefore, calling on all lovers of democracy within and outside Nigeria to join in the efforts to stop the PDP and its cohorts from truncating the nation’s democracy.
This is just as the PDP decried the cry associated with the registration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) by the ACN and its merging partners, saying that the ACN had clearly demonstrated that it was the real threat to Nigeria’s democracy.
In a statement by its national publicity secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, in a press release, on Sunday, the PDP said “the ACN has shown that it is the real threat to Nigeria’s democracy and it is unyielding in its plot to truncate the system with propaganda, lies and media deceit.”
Earlier, the ACN had said “having misgoverned Nigeria since the country’s return to democratic rule in 1999, the PDP, realising that its time is up, has now resorted to a dangerous game aimed at either keeping the party in power at all costs or crashing the country’s democracy.
“This is a dangerous game that must be stopped, with the good people of Nigeria, not just the progressives, leading the charge.”
ACN described the events of the past few weeks, during which the PDP was allegedly using some of its members to scuttle the registration of the APC as a throwback to 1993, when the then military junta supported the so-called Association for Better Nigeria (ABN) to scuttle the presidential election.
‘’Ironically, in seeking to stop the All Progressives’ Congress, the PDP has now shot itself in the foot, as discerning Nigerians do not believe in its denials of any linkage with the so-called African Peoples Congress.
“An official of the PDP, employing warped logic at its crudest, even had the temerity to insult Nigerians by suggesting that the opposition may be the one engineering the registration crisis to gain popularity! In any case, what is now happening to the PDP will speed its demise, and that is what happens when desperation clouds the sense of reasoning,’’ the party said.
Reacting, however, the PDP said “ACN spokesman, Lai Mohammed, should be bold enough to tell Nigerians the relationship his party has with the chief press secretary to the INEC chairman, Mr Kayode Idowu.”
Metuh further said the ACN was seeking to heat up the policy with “its unpatriotic statements and desperate lust for power for selfish reasons,” adding that “the ACN has continued to make mountains of a mere name registration.”
Meanwhile, the Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Political Matters, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, has dissociated himself from the alleged involvement in the move to register the African Peoples Party (APC).
The aide, alongside other PDP stalwarts, were fingered in the ploy targeted at frustrating registration of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Reacting to the inclusion of his name in the saga, Gulak said the function of his office was principally to advise President Jonathan on how to maintain political stability.
Gulak, who spoke through the head of media and public affairs in his office, Chief Perry Opara, in a statement, noted that efforts by disgruntled persons to disparage his office should be discountenanced.
“Any claim by persons or groups that the special adviser to the president on political affairs is involved in the registration or otherwise of a political party is false and should be disregarded,” he said.
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