By Valentine Amanze
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has labeled the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as a party of violence.
It also said that it was terrified by the spate of bloodletting and massive corruption associated with the APC, both in governance and its internal activities.
PDP through its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, also alleged that APC was dragging the nation towards anarchy by engaging in actions that instigate bloody conflicts and breakdown of law and order among Nigerians, including in their fold as a party.
It stated: “Nigerians watched with bewilderment and disbelief as indescribable savagery, cruelty, violence, shooting and bloodletting enveloped the APC ward congress, which ordinarily should be a civil interaction among party members.
“From the rascally attempt to overrun a court of competent jurisdiction in Port Harcourt, Rivers State to halt the wheel of justice, the burning of their own secretariat in Owerri, Imo State, the gruesome murder of their own members in Lagos and Oyo states to the malignant disputation and lust for power by its leaders across the nation, it is clear that the APC is not organic but a soulless mob without any form of conscience and integrity; an ‘evil wind that blows no good’’’.
It pointed out that party congresses were designed to allow members interface and resolve divergences amicably, but wondered why APC could not actuate the simplest tradition of political parties, making its congress a threat to the nation’s democracy.
It accused APC of becoming a symbol and harbinger of malevolence, which is on a sordid throttle of taking the nation to the long forgotten state of nature where only the mighty rules; the state of anarchy.
“From its cannibalistic proclivities, the world can see why the APC and its insensitive Federal Government care less about the lives and welfare of Nigerians, resulting in the escalation of violence, bloodletting, mass killings, extra-judicial executions, persecution of citizens, abuse of human rights, constitutional violations, including invasion of the
National Assembly as well as attack on federal lawmakers and judicial officers. We now know the roots of APC’s harsh economic policies and massive corruption that led to the biting economic recession and its attendant hunger, starvation and lack ravaging our nation today,” it stated.
It said that Nigerians were on a consensus that things could only get worse with the APC owing to its proclivity for vengeance, violence and repression.
PDP therefore appealed to Nigerians to rise in unison and use democratic instruments “to stop the APC in this dangerous drive to further wreck our nation and plunge it into a state of anarchy.”
