PDP Accuses APC Of Plot To Impose One-party State

Abuja, By Chibuzo Ukaibe
— Apr 7, 2015

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday declared that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is hatching a plot to impose one-party system in the country.

The party, however, said it would cooperate with the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to foster unity and development in the country.

Speaking at a pressing conference in Abuja, the National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Olisa Metuh also boasted that PDP will return to power in the next four years.

He said “our nation and its citizens are facing a serous threat. We are at the verge of a quick slide into dictatorship and the personal freedom we all enjoy today is about to be obliterated.”

Metuh said that APC has no clear agenda on how to govern the country, adding that “rather than concentrate on how to manage the mandate they now hold, they have resorted to seeking ways to stifle opposition and impose a one-party system and complete totalitarian rule in our country.”

According to him, “reports reaching the PDP leadership from across the country show that the APC has been desperately seeking ways to destabilize our ranks and weaken our formations by approaching some senior members of our National Executive Committee (NEC) with phantom promises and threats ostensibly to use them to inject crisis in our fold and pave way for our elected members to cross over to APC.

“Furthermore, the PDP has it on good authority that part of this agenda of the APC is to intimidate and harass our members especially officials who served under our administration.

“However, we wish to state in very unequivocal terms that the PDP leadership under the Chairmanship of Ahmadu Adamu Mu’azu will not condone any witch-hunt on any of our elected and appointed officers, including state governors, ministers, legislators and others who served with clean records as such will be met with stiff resistance within the ambits of the principles of democracy.

“We will do everything humanly possible within the rules to defend democratic principles and ethics, which we have successfully nourished in the past 16 years.”

Metuh added that “a foretaste of the destabilising mission of the APC is clearly evident in the avoidable political tension being created in Ekiti and Lagos state where the APC is desperate to truncate the will of the people.”

Metuh also explained that PDP would not go to court to challenge the outcome of the presidential election.

When asked Metuh said, “we will not distract Buhari, we will help him to salvage democracy. We will offer APC alternative programme. We will be the best opposition, we do hope that the opposition will appreciate democracy.”

According to him, “PDP recognises that there were irregularities in the presidential election, but we decided that promoting unity is paramount to us. It is the wish of this party that the President-elect will not be disturbed, we will not do anything that will disturb him and we will not condole harassment of our members.”

‎He also said the impeachment threat on the Ekiti State governor, Ayo Fayose by the state lawmakers ‎was because of his role in Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential campaign.

He said “what is the duty of people who have two months to be in office to destabilise the state. It is immoral and undemocratic for a group of people to put a state into chaos”, Metuh argued.

He observed that Ekiti people would go to the polls on Saturday to elect their legislators and advised the lawmakers against overheating the polity.

He assured that Governor Fayose would be ready to respond to the allegations of the lawmakers if due process was followed.

Metuh feared that the situation in the state might lead to violence, and called on the president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari and APC leadership to intervene and forestall breakdown of law and order in Ekiti State.

He recalled that ‎when PDP lawmakers in Nasarawa State served an impeachment notice on the state governor, Tanko Al-Makura, the presidency and PDP leadership intervened.

On defections by some of its members, Metuh said ‎while it is their right to defect, he said it was cheap, opportunistic and immoral for someone to defect immediately after the party lost this election.

He added that it shows that such persons lack of strength of character stressing ‎”we want members but I don’t think we are craving fickle-minded members and committed members no matter the numbers.

“If we have only committed members then we can rebuild our party. Let fair weather members leave the party.”

On the violence in Rivers State, he added “We abhor violence in any state. ‎we won’t condone violence. We believe our members are not involved. They assured our party chairman when he put a call to them that they are not involved in violence.”

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LOL. I am loving this. The same PDP who swore to rule for 60yrs is now yelling about one party state

No worry, Better go meet Asiwaju on crash course about how to play Opposition

How the mighty has fallen! For 16 years you guys had a chance and you chose to loot resources and intimidate poor Nigerians with power and impunity, now you're crying foul. You will remain in the opposition for a very long time while we move forward!

Like pdp like its supporters. Always senseless

Each time you think you've heard and seen it all, something else comes up to dispel that notion... all i can do is laugh in swahili.

PDP has only been in opposition for just about 5 days and they are already crying wolf, na war oo..

The same people that released these statements might even decamp tomorrow. They are doing what they are doing out of their own free will. No one coerced them to join APC, so what's the cry about??

PDP would make a terrible opposition.

It Is A Shame For The PDP To Make Such Allegation against The APC (Giant Killer). What A Shame. How Hath The Mighty Fallen.

;Dthe opposition have spoken

It is very good and charitable to see PDP in this kind of situation.
But they shouldn't distract us with all these. Baba is already there. We need him to act fast on our behalf. If PDP like make dem die, its irrelevant for now.

Remembered when some dull daft ignorant and Dundee PDP supporters were celebrating the fact one unknown and inconsequential no relevant e-nonentity barcanista defected to seek protection and connection, they assumed those are what matters.

APC captured 5 governors, The speaker and many relevant political jaggernauts across the federation and some lowlifers dey celebrate an unknown entity defecting to the already sinking ship.

5days and they are crying already. Na 60years dem dey go

Pdp nd apc..no big difference anymore with d way these politicians are decamping
same ol' people
recycling things on point
nothing new
old wines in a new bottle
if dem like make dem make am zero party system,nothing change
na stl d same set of people wey we see 4 pdp 16yrs ago we stl dy see 4 apc kwa

socialmediaman:
How the mighty has fallen! For 16 years you guys had a chance and you chose to loot resources and intimidate poor Nigerians with power and impunity, now you're crying foul. You will remain in the opposition for a very long time while we move forward!

You beat me to this.

Like Apc is forcing PDP to decamp with guns pointed on their head

Interesting, the new opposition party how at the mighty fallen the once biggest party in Africa. God please do not change my and every other Nders glory to sorry like the PDP

Pdp with accusation, they rule the country for sixteen years and no one accuse them of turning the country to a one state party, but has started accusation against the party that has not even resume its reign. Pdp in devil's ministry, doing the the accusers of the brethren.

I can't stop laughing!
A PDP already making this kind of allegation(?).

"Imagine what would have happened to the Yorubas if Nnamdi Azikiwe's had been allowed to become the first Yoruba Premier in 1954. I know some of my Igbo friends would have been going around telling anybody who will listen that the Western Region was once an Igbo colony and it would have been a hard sell for any of us to refute or deny the claim. Just like Onitsha or Enugu would always remain the nerve center of the Igbo civilization, Lagos must remain the crown jewel of the Yoruba nation".

While i believe that JK is okay and clearly not joking Ifeanyi Ubah an Igbo should never never be allowed to chose the next govern of Lagos in Yorubaland.

Yoruba ronu

Pee Dee and Pee..power..hahahahahahahahahahahahaha