- Safiu Kehinde
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has slammed the new factional Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kabiru Turaki, over his call for foreign invasion of Nigeria.
NPO Reported that Turaki while addressing newsmen over the crisis rocking the PDP yesterday had called on the United States President, Donald Trump, and other international communities to intervene in Nigeria and save the country’s democracy which he claimed to be under threat.
Reacting in a statement issued on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, the APC condemned and urged the international community to dismiss the call by Turaki.
Morka described Turaki as confused.
He said Nigerians expected that Turaki would set himself on an urgent peace-building mission to bring his party’s warring factions together in dialogue, towards finding possible pathways to peace and reconciliation.
The APC spokesperson noted that instead, Turaki’s first official act as PDP’s factional chairman was to call for foreign invasion of Nigeria as a solution to the self-inflicted internal crisis of his PDP.
“Turaki’s call for foreign invasion of Nigeria was reckless and unpatriotic and should not be taken seriously.
“For a man declared national chairman barely 72 hours ago by a faction of his deeply fractured party, Turaki looked and sounded desperate, at his wit’s end,”he said.
Morka said his call was a dangerous threat to national security and sovereignty, adding that it was a disgraceful and unpatriotic call.
He recalled that under the PDP’s 16 years in power, with its subversion of opposition parties, there was never a call for foreign invasion of Nigeria as a solution to crisis within opposition parties of that era.
“Turaki’s call is not only an admission of PDP’s incapacity to manage its internal contradictions, it must be taken as a final certification of its demise.
“We trust the international community to dismiss the PDP’s disgraceful and unpatriotic call as a pitiful distraction from the failure of its internal democracy and embarrassing disintegration.
“The heightened desperation of the PDP and other opposition leaders is now clear for all to see. Turaki’s call shows how far they are willing to go.
“Even to the extent of actively seeking destructive intervention of foreign powers on Nigerian soil in order to serve their sinister political agenda,” Morka said.
He urged Nigerians to stand firm in support of the APC, and the visionary leadership of President Bola Tinubu as he continued the task of building progress and prosperity in all areas of our national life.