The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has
condemned in the strongest possible terms what it described
as “the emerging height of political recklessness in Lagos and
Ekiti states ahead of Saturday’s governorship and House of
Assembly elections and calls on all Nigerians to stand up
against such anti-democratic tendencies”.
A statement on Monday by Olisa Metuh, PDP National
Publicity Secretary, said the senseless and unpatriotic
impeachment move against Governor Ayo Fayose by out-going
APC state legislators and the barbaric death threats on non-
indigenes in Lagos by the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu if
they voted for the PDP candidate, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, ascended
to a height of unruliness that should not be accommodated.
Continuing he said, “The PDP totally and unequivocally
rejects the flimsy and unsubstantiated allegations concocted
by the APC legislators against Governor Fayose. We state in
very clear terms that we will stand with him and bear our
full weight in defense of the mandate freely given to him by
the people of Ekiti state.
“We invite all lovers of democracy and the international
community to note the antics of APC and the deliberate plot
to destabilize the polity even when it is yet to assume power.
“In the same vein, it is indeed most unfortunate that a royal
father of the status of the Oba of Lagos should attempt to drag
the revered traditional institution into partisan politics to the
level of threatening innocent Nigerians with the view to
prevent them from freely exercising their constitutionally
guaranteed right.
“Our response to the Oba of Lagos is that he cannot play God
and can never be God.
God owns the universe and every part of it and can never
share His glory with any human no matter how highly
placed. We therefore call on all Nigerians in Lagos state; all
Igbos, Hausas, Yorubas and people of other tribes; all
northerners and southerners; all Christians and Muslims to
turn against this unpatriotic stance, by coming out enmasse
to vote for the PDP candidate, Mr. Jimi Agbaje on Saturday.
“Undoubtedly, this anti-Nigeria position reminds of the 2013
inhuman and callous arrest, detention and eventual
‘deportation’ of non-indigenes by the APC-led government of
Lagos state and confirms fears that the APC is indeed on a
mission to destroy our national unity, balkanize the nation
and obliterate the personal freedom Nigerians enjoy today.
“Already, the APC has started terrorizing supporters of the
PDP with vows to make life unbearable for them when it
eventually assumes power.
Our investigation reveals that many of our prominent
supporters have been marked.
The process has already started with threats to the life, family
and business of the Chairman of the Transformation
Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN), Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah for
supporting PDP candidates and helping non-indigenes win
some Lagos seats in the National Assembly on the platform of
the our great party.
“Indeed, if this threats on a duly elected state governor and
innocent Nigerians constitute the picture or foretaste of the
order of the day when the APC finally assumes power at the
center, then the nation is in serious danger.
However, the PDP states in very unambiguous terms that
Nigerians would not accept such under any guise whatsoever.
“This is more so because in the last 16 years, our citizens
from all walks of lives have seen civility and decorum under
the PDP-led administration and would not accept any attempt
by anybody to institute a reign of terror in the country
“We therefore urge General Muhammadu Buhari as the
leader of the APC to call his members and supporters,
particularly in Lagos and Ekiti to order; especially bearing in
mind that it was the peaceful atmosphere and the level
playing ground nurtured by the PDP-led administration that
created the room for his emergence at the presidential polls.
Our country cannot at this moment afford to slide into
anarchy, reign of terror and deliberate schemes to divide the
the people for selfish political reasons.
“The PDP will completely resist all anti democratic forces
from any quarters.
We therefore charge Nigerians, especially those in Lagos and
Ekiti states respectively to stand up fearlessly and reject the
unpatriotic stance of the Oba of Lagos and the undemocratic
move to dismantle the mandate given to Governor Ayo Fayose
by the people”.
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