APC Plotting Nigeria’s Disintegration Through Banditry, Electoral Violence – PDP

BY EVELYN DADU, ABUJA – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of plotting to use acts of banditry and electoral violence to disrupt the nation’s democratic order and ensure its disintegration.

This was as the main opposition Party cautioned the APC and its leaders to stop stretching the limits of Nigerians’ patience through acts of electoral violence as well as shenanigans aimed at derailing Nigeria’s democracy and disintegrating the nation.

The PDP said the grand plot by the APC is based on the realization that it has been rejected and can no longer win elections in our country.

The party also asserts that the silence of the APC and the Buhari Presidency on the attack and assassination attempt on Benue State Governor, Dr Samuel Ortom, by bandits, who were reported as killer herdsmen, calls for serious concern.

It stressed that the silence of the APC and the Buhari Presidency to the violence unleased by APC thugs, leading to the killing of two innocent Nigerians and a police officer, in the Ekiti State bye election at the weekend and the postponement of the election, only goes to show that the APC is all out to derail the nation’s democracy just because they have been rejected by Nigerians.

A statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, said the party holds that such disposition in the face of an assassination attempt on a democratically elected governor by bandits as well as killing of innocent Nigerians and a law enforcement officer by suspected APC thugs, amounts to endorsing acts of violence and assault against Nigeria’s democratic order, sovereignty and corporate existence as a nation.

The statement further said; “It is the belief of our party that such silence on an assassination attempt on Governor Ortom is portentous given that the attack came on the heels of his outspokenness in exposing those allegedly behind the incessant attacks on communities in the state and demanding that the Federal Government should live up to its responsibility on the protection of life and property in the state”.

The PDP therefore urged Nigerians to note how the APC and its leaders have been patronizing bandits, terrorists and kidnappers and even justifying their acts of violence against innocent Nigerians, while providing cover for thugs bring used in the plot to derail Nigeria’s democratic order.

The party also urged Nigerians to hold the APC and its leaders responsible for the attack on Governor Ortom while also calling them to question should any harm befall the governor or any member of his family and government.