The ruling All Progressives Congress has dismissed as baseless, the allegation by the People’s Democratic Party Northern Governors that President Muhammadu Buhari was muscling governors on its platform to dump its platform.
National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe in a statement said the erstwhile ruling party was being haunted by its past.
The APC CECPC described the allegation as comical, laughable and devoid of truth. recalled “how the PDP government in 2003 muscled and eventually collapsed the main opposition party, Alliance for Democracy (AD) by illegally deploying state machinery aided by security services then at their disposal to capture five of the six states in the Southwest geo-political zone under the control of AD.
“The PDP mastered and weaponised the undemocratic and devious strategy in the well-reported inducement of National Assembly members in the then PDP government’s rejected and failed bid to amend the constitution for tenure extension aka Third Term Agenda.
“From Ekiti, Anambra, Plateau, Oyo and Bayelsa States, democratically-elected governors were unconstitutionally removed from office by the then PDP government through manipulation of state assemblies and other gestapo tactics. Elected governors were jailed and some were forced into exile.
“Nigerians cannot forget the dangerous ‘do-or-die’ politics the PDP government introduced to the country’s political lexicon and electioneering.”
The ruling party further declared that chieftains of the PDP impressed by the performance of President Muhammadu Buhari and frustrated by the lack of visionary leadership at the PDP national Secretariat, have been leaving the main opposition party.
‘We wish to make it clear that those who defected to the APC from the dying PDP have done so in recognition and appreciation of the indisputable achievements of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. They are coming in droves to be part of the APC’s continuing drive to improve the wellbeing of all Nigerians in all parts of the country.
The internal democracy and progressive outlook institutionalised by Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) has attracted many well-meaning patriots who are joining the APC to contribute their quota to our country’s progress.
“The peace and harmony in the APC for which it is known is an additional incentive that makes the country’s largest party with over 40 million registered members irresistible to forward-looking patriots that have something good to offer the electorates.
“While members of the Northern PDP Governors’ Forum are stuck in the inertia caused by the clueless and dictatorial leadership of their tattered party, governors elected on the platform of the APC across the country are busy providing infrastructure, expanding educational and economic opportunities in line with our party manifesto.
“President Buhari’s multi-sectoral achievements are the unique selling points attracting en masse well-meaning Nigerians including erstwhile PDP Governors to the APC as well as cross-partisan support for this administration’s many pro-people social interventions in particularly targeting the poor.
“For a political party that was overwhelmingly rejected by Nigerians in 2015 and 2019, the PDP’s failure to sincerely beg Nigerians to forgive its atrocities during its 16 wasted years and provide credible opposition has undoubtedly caused its irreversible descent into the abyss.”
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