The PDP has expressed concern about some conspiracies to foment violence and sabotage the approaching 2023 elections and claims to have "reliable information" regarding people who are committing acts of violence in specific regions of the nation.
Festus Keyamo, the Director of Public Affairs and Chief Spokesperson for the Tinubu/Shettima PCC, stated in a press release on Wednesday that the PDP's "ethically challenged" claim, which came just 48 hours after one of its former officials was found guilty by a court of law for illegal acts committed during an election that the PDP government presided over, "is just a pointer to the lowest level of moral debauchery to which the PDP has sunk
The PDP "operates without an iota of shame or regard for the Nigerian people," said Keyamo, who is also the Minister of State for Labour and Employment. It continues to preach rather than offer sincere regrets for those heinous crimes of election fraud, money laundering, and other electoral malpractices.
According to the APC PCC's most recent press release, which claimed to have "credible information" about certain individuals plotting to rig the 2023 elections, including acts of arson already committed against INEC facilities, the party's leaders should be summoned for immediate questioning by law enforcement.
It said that the PDP was had to disclose details regarding: "The date, time, and location of such a meeting, as well as those present."
“The identities of those who committed these acts of arson on the facilities of INEC
“The information must also include the identity of those who sponsored these individuals (if any).”
The PDP should realise that an electioneering process is very serious business and not a time to issue baseless and infantile statements out of want of something to say to the Nigerian people. The Nigerian people have since grown weary of the antics of the PDP.
We suspect that the latest alarm by the PDP is one of a long list of diversionary measures adopted by the party to deflect attention from its crumbling edifice. Just yesterday, the major leaders of the PDP in Katsina State led by a former Katsina State Governor, Mr. Ibrahim Shehu Shema, and 10 out of the 14-member working committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) boycotted the party’s rally in the State and today they issue this statement to deflect attention from that disaster.
We also state that this gimmick is nothing but crying wolf when there is none. We have said in an earlier statement on this issue some weeks ago that this is the same unnecessary scare-mongering tactics and crass vituperations they employed and engaged in before the 2019 election which led to their crushing defeat.
We also said before and we repeat it here that ASIWAJU Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a thoroughbred democrat and one of the major architects of the democracy PDP and Nigerians enjoy today, so he should be the VERY LAST of the Presidential candidates to be accused of undemocratic conduct or underhand dealings in the electoral process.
The PDP should not joke or play politics with grave security matters. Having ‘credible information’ as to plots and individuals relating to the attack on INEC offices currently, further plots to disrupt elections is, indeed, a matter of national security.
The APC PCC declared that its reaction was a “NOTICE TO OUR LAW-ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO IMMEDIATELY INVITE THE PDP LEADERS FOR QUESTIONING. AFTER ALL, IT TAKES A THIEF TO CATCH A THIEF! “