SAN FRANCISCO, February 21, (THEWILL) – The All Progressives Congress, APC, on Tuesday prayed for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to put its house in order so that Nigeria’s democracy can be “better served”. This was as it distanced itself from the internal wrangling in the party.
APC debunked the allegation by the Senator Ahmed Makarfi faction of PDP that it is responsible for the action of the Police, which prevented some members of that faction from using the Abuja International Conference Centre initial venue for their stakeholders’ meeting.
In a statement issued by its national publicity secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the ruling party also denied the claim by the faction that it influenced the decision of the Appeal Court sitting in Port Harcourt which ruled against the Makarfi group in its quest to be upheld by the court as the authentic PDP.
Declaring that the police do not take instructions from the ruling party, Abdullahi stressed that the Force have already explained why they stopped the Makarfi group from meeting at the ICC. He advised the group to seek further clarifications from the police or pursue alternative means of redress if they are not satisfied with the police explanation.
According to the statement, “So far, the Makarfi group has not faulted the police or provided any proof for its allegations against our party, which we found quite surprising, considering that Makarfi and his group have in their ranks, individuals who are sufficiently experienced to know that without any evidence, such allegations could easily be dismissed as baseless and therefore be ignored by all right thinking members of the public, including our party.
“The reason we have not simply ignored the wild allegations is because we are imperilled by utterances and conducts that attack the integrity and independence of our judicial system. Every Nigerian should be worried by the behaviour of the various PDPs which is capable of eroding the confidence of Nigerians in our judicial system. Even as they battle themselves for survival, we urge restraint in the interest of our democracy.
“We wish to reiterate that the APC has no interest in the internal crisis of that is consuming the PDP, which is only one of several opposition parties in the country. We pray for them to put their house in order soon because as a political party that was once in the opposition, we believe that democracy is better served when the opposition is alive.
“However, we also know the PDP can only begin to take steps towards recovery if they stop peddling conspiracy theories and blaming imaginary enemies.”
