PDP To Oshiomhole, APC – Steer Clear of Our Offices
BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday said the whole world witnessed with dismay, how thugs of the All Progressives Congress (APC), brandishing their party’s brooms and charms; armed with machetes and other dangerous weapons stormed its national secretariat which has become a beehive of activities and attacked and wounded its members and supporters before they were dispelled by security operatives.
The PDP stressed that the ruling APC resort to banditry and violent attack on its national secretariat is a handshake taken beyond the elbow and will not be tolerated.
Accordingly, the PDP warned the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, to rein in his party thugs, who the APC detailed to disrupt activities at the PDP National Secretariat, Abuja.
The opposition Party said while it can understand that the APC has been distraught over the renewed surge of Nigerians to its platform that has been repositioned which signposts its inevitable victory in the 2019 election.
A statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan said the Party had repeatedly warned against APC’s proclivity for violence and unprovoked attacks, but never imagined that their desperation for power will drive them to the insanity of attacking our national secretariat.
Ologbondiyan said; “Intelligence report available to the PDP shows that the thugs were assembled and mobilized from the National Secretariat of the APC.
We therefore charge security agencies, who also witnessed this attack, to immediately investigate this development, arrest and prosecute all individuals and officials of APC connected with the attack.
“Moreover, the unleashing of thugs by the APC against our law-abiding party members and supporters, is particularly revealing of those behind some of the violent attacks on innocent Nigerians in various parts of the country.”
The PDP said while it appreciates the overwhelming support by Nigerian’s across board, it restated its determination to dismantle all forces of intimidation and rigging machinery of the APC ahead of the 2019 general elections.
