The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stop playing politics with the lives of Nigerians, saying it is wrong, irresponsible and uncharitable to seek to make political gains out of the worsening and deadly terror attacks in the country.
In a statement issued in Gusau, Zamfara State on Thursday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said Nigerians are too discerning to be hoodwinked by PDP’s ceaseless finger-pointing and name calling, as exhibited by the party’s overly-exuberant and rarely-introspecting spokesman.
It said Nigerians who watched the live telecast of the APC rally in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday saw how the party, left with no choice than to proceed with the rally in view of the suddenness of the Jos twin bombings and the fact that INEC cannot be prevailed upon to change the timetable of the Ekiti polls, made it as somber as possible under the circumstances.
”Despite the presence of musical groups and other performers, all musical breaks in the programme and all other scheduled performances were cut out, while the rally itself was drastically abridged. There is no doubt that the PDP’s spokesman did not even bother to get the full details of the rally before rushing to the media in his usual jumpy self.
”Mr. Olisah Metuh is definitely eager to act like an opposition spokesman rather than the spokesman for the ruling party. This is not a problem as his party is definitely fighting hard to trade places with the APC as the main opposition party come 2015. We can only appeal to Mr. Metuh to wait for a few more months and, in the meantime, start learning the ropes as an opposition spokesman,” APC said.
The party reminded the PDP that the Ekiti rally was not the same thing as the illegal rally in Kano, where President Goodluck Jonathan led other PDP leaders to engage in Azonto dance less than 24 hours after 75 of his compatriots were killed in the first Nyanya bombing.
”It is therefore hypocritical, insincere, thoughtless, insensitive and uncaring for the PDP – a party without soul or conscience, a party under whose watch over 12,000 Nigerians have been bombed into smithereens by Boko Haram alone – to be seeking to paint the APC in its own warped and grossly distorted image,” APC said.
