PDP insists APC is behind arson unleashed on INEC offices countrywide

▪︎Urges IGP to place APC leaders on watch list

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Tuesday, said it stood by its earlier assertion that the All Progressives Congress (APC) was behind the burning of offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in various parts of the country.

The party, in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, restated its position that the APC had been promoting acts of violence, including burning of INEC offices in order to build up an emergency situation and frustrate the smooth conduct of the 2023 general elections.

The main opposition party said it was despicable that having realized that it had no place in the 2023 election, given its abysmal failure in governance, APC leaders were seeking to set the country ablaze and truncate the nation’s hard-earned democracy.

The party invited Nigerians to note the failure of the APC and its leaders to forcefully condemn this clear assault on the frontline institution of democracy.

” This is also as the APC administration has failed to take decisive steps to protect INEC facilities from assailants.

“Our party wants the APC to know that May 29, 2023 date is sacrosanct for it to leave office, free our nation from its stranglehold and fizzle out from our political firmament.

“Indeed, history will not be kind to APC and its leaders given the magnitude of atrocities they have committed against Nigerians in a space of six years,” PDP said.

The party further stated that the APC had destroyed the nation, opened the country to bandits and terrorists, turned the nation into an expansive killing field and a large funeral palour.

“APC has wrecked our economy, opened our national vaults to its leaders to pillage over N15 trillion naira and reduced our once thriving country to a beggar nation while mortgaging our future with humongous foreign debts.

“Our party calls on the Inspector General of Police to immediately invite and question APC leaders over the burning of INEC offices.

“Nigerians also expect the police to immediately place APC leaders and their thugs on watch list as a firm step to guarantee the security of INEC facilities and other institutions of democracy in the country,” the PDP added.

The party also called on Nigerians, across board, to remain at alert and unite in prayers so that the nation survives the next two years under the vindictive, insensitive, incompetent, treasury-looting, divisive and violent APC and its administration.

The PDP further urged Nigerians not to be deterred by the actions of the APC but to remain united in rallying in the defence of the nation’s democracy to rescue the nation from the misrule of the APC.