The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of plotting to use acts of banditry and electoral violence to disrupt the country’s democratic arrangement and disintegrate the nation.
The main opposition party alleged that the ruling party had realized that it had been rejected by Nigerians and could no longer win elections in the country.
The opposition party in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, asserted that the silence of the APC and the Buhari Presidency to the attack and assassination attempt on Benue State Governor, Dr Samuel Ortom, by bandits, who were reported as killer herdsmen, called for serious concern.
The PDP also stressed that the silence of the APC and the Buhari Presidency to the violence unleased by APC thugs, leading to the killing of two innocent Nigerians and a police officer, in the Ekiti State bye-election on Saturday and the postponement of the election, only went to show that the APC was all out to derail Nigerian democracy just because it had been rejected by Nigerians.
“Our party holds that such disposition in the face an assassination attempt on a democratically elected governor by bandits as well as killing of innocent Nigerians and a law enforcement officer by suspected APC thugs, amounts to endorsing acts of violence and assault against our democratic order, sovereignty and corporate existence as a nation.
“It is the belief of our party that such silence on an assassination attempt on Governor Ortom is portentous given that the attack came on the heels of his outspokenness in exposing those allegedly behind the incessant attacks on communities in the state and demanding that the Federal Government should live up to its responsibility on the protection of life and property in the state, ” the PDP said.
The party invited Nigerians to note how the APC and its leaders had been patronizing bandits, terrorists and kidnappers and even justifying their acts of violence against innocent Nigerians, while providing cover for “the thugs they use in their plot to derail our democratic order.”
“Our party urges Nigerians to hold the APC and its leaders responsible for the attack on Governor Ortom as well as call them to question should any harm befall the governor or any member of his family and government,” PDP added.
The party cautioned the APC and its leaders to stop stretching the limits of Nigerians’ patience through acts of electoral violence as well as shenanigans aimed at derailing the country’s democracy and disintegrating the nation.
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