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AC to PDP: Stop overheating the polity with spurious claims

Thursday, 04 September 2008

The Action Congress (AC) has again challenged the PDP to stop overheating the polity through fallacious claims, saying the ruling party should not add to the problems it has already created for Nigerians through poor governance and inept leadership.

In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in Abuja on Thursday, the party said the claim by the PDP that some gunmen came to attack its national secretariat in Abuja was nothing more than a red herring, designed to divert attention from the growing discontent with the do-nothing ruling party.

It said the PDP, apparently shocked at the massive reprobation from the public reaction over its irresponsible coup scare alert, has chosen to cook up another imaginary problem to distract the citizenry, already weighed down by the results of PDP’s failings as manifested in rising unemployment, worsening infrastructure, hunger and lack of security, just to mention a few.

AC said since the PDP claimed the gunmen were arrested by the police, it should ask that they be paraded openly, and for the gunmen to tell the public who their sponsors are.

"If indeed there are gunmen who came to attack the PDP secretariat, the party must look inwards to trace their origin. It is possible they (gunmen) are products of the PDP’s nest of killers.

"And the party must prove its claim. It is not just enough to throw one spurious allegation after another. After all, the PDP and INEC once claimed that a tanker was to be used to bomb the INEC headquarters in Abuja, when in fact that figment of their imagination was merely a ploy to divert attention from their joint project to rig the 2007 general elections.

"Several months on, the outcome of the so-called investigations into the allegation has not been made public, while the tanker has perhaps been released to the owner," AC said.

It said the PDP was beginning to sound like a broken record, seeing enemies everywhere and becoming afraid of its own shadows because the party knows it has failed Nigerians and turned democracy to a tool for punishing them, instead of using it as a vehicle to better their lot.

"Really, we are not surprised. If the PDP which controls most states of the federation and the federal government - either by hook or crook - had been busy formulating ways to turn Nigeria around for the better, its leaders would not have been hallucinating.

"In case its leaders do not know it, PDP’s tales by the moonlight are no longer believable. Nigerians need food on their tables, regular supply of electricity, provision of potable water, security of their lives and property and good health care, not tales from the crypt that have now been perfected by the PDP," AC said.

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