The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
condemns in the strongest possible terms the emerging
height of political recklessness in Lagos and Ekiti states
ahead of Saturday's governorship and House of Assembly
elections and calls on all Nigerians to stand up against such
anti-democratic tendencies.
The senseless and unpatriotic impeachment move against
Governor Ayo Fayose by out-going APC state legislators and
the barbaric death threats on non-indigenes in Lagos by the
Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu if they vote for the PDP
candidate, Mr. Jimi Agbaje ascend to a height of unruliness
that should not be accommodated.
The PDP totally and unequivocally rejects the flimsy and
unsubstantiated allegations concocted by the APC legislators
against Governor Fayose. We state in very clear terms that
we will stand with him and bear our full weight in defense of
the mandate freely given to him by the people of Ekiti state.
We invite all lovers of democracy and the international
community to note the antics of APC and the deliberate plot
to destabilize the polity even when it is yet to assume power.
In the same vein, it is indeed most unfortunate that a royal
father of the status of the Oba of Lagos should attempt to
drag the revered traditional institution into partisan politics
to the level of threatening innocent Nigerians with the view
to prevent them from freely exercising their constitutionally
guaranteed right.
Our response to the Oba of Lagos is that he cannot play God
and can never be God. God owns the universe and every
part of it and can never share His glory with any human no
matter how highly placed. We therefore call on all Nigerians
in Lagos state; all Igbos, Hausas, Yorubas and people of
other tribes; all northerners and southerners; all Christians
and Muslims to turn against this unpatriotic stance, by
coming out enmasse to vote for the PDP candidate, Mr. Jimi
Agbaje on Saturday.
Undoubtedly, this anti-Nigeria position reminds of the 2013
inhuman and callous arrest, detention and eventual
'deportation' of non-indigenes by the APC-led government of
Lagos state and confirms fears that the APC is indeed on a
mission to destroy our national unity, balkanize the nation
and obliterate the personal freedom Nigerians enjoy today.
Already, the APC has started terrorizing supporters of the
PDP with vows to make life unbearable for them when it
eventually assumes power. Our investigation reveals that
many of our prominent supporters have been marked. The
process has already started with threats to the life, family
and business of the Chairman of the Transformation
Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN), Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah for
supporting PDP candidates and helping non-indigenes win
some Lagos seats in the National Assembly on the platform
of the our great party.
Indeed, if this threats on a duly elected state governor and
innocent Nigerians constitute the picture or foretaste of the
order of the day when the APC finally assumes power at the
center, then the nation is in serious danger. However, the
PDP states in very unambiguous terms that Nigerians would
not accept such under any guise whatsoever.
This is more so because in the last 16 years, our citizens
from all walks of lives have seen civility and decorum under
the PDP-led administration and would not accept any
attempt by anybody to institute a reign of terror in the
country
We therefore urge General Muhammadu Buhari as the
leader of the APC to call his members and supporters,
particularly in Lagos and Ekiti to order; especially bearing in
mind that it was the peaceful atmosphere and the level
playing ground nurtured by the PDP-led administration that
created the room for his emergence at the presidential
polls.
Our country cannot at this moment afford to slide into
anarchy, reign of terror and deliberate schemes to divide
the people for selfish political reasons.
The PDP will completely resist all anti democratic forces
from any quarters. We therefore charge Nigerians,
especially those in Lagos and Ekiti states respectively to
stand up fearlessly and reject the unpatriotic stance of the
Oba of Lagos and the undemocratic move to dismantle the
mandate given to Governor Ayo Fayose by the people.
Signed:
Olisa Metuh
National Publicity Secretary
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