The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the call for foreign invasion of Nigeria by the new national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN.
Addressing journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, Turaki called on the United States President, Donald Trump, to save Nigerian democracy which, according to him, was in danger, following the invasion of the PDP national headquarters by thugs supported by expelled party members and security agents.
“I want to call on President Trump. What is at stake is not just genocide against Christians; he should come and save democracy in Nigeria. Democracy is under threat. I am calling all other developed nations, all advanced democracies, come and save Nigeria,” Turaki had said.
But, reacting to the development, the APC national publicity secretary, Felix Morka, said Turaki’s call for alleged foreign invasion of Nigeria was reckless and unpatriotic.
“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, confused, incoherent, and grossly lacking in stamina and capacity to manage his party’s crisis.
“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. Instead, Turaki’s first official act as factional chairman was his call for foreign invasion of Nigeria as a solution to the self-inflicted internal crisis of his PDP. That is as shameless as it is a dangerous threat to national security and sovereignty.
“Under the PDP’s 16 years in power, with its ruthless 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 the party’s incapacity to manage its internal contradictions, it must be taken as a final certification of the PDP’s demise,” he said.
Morka expressed confidence that the international community would 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.
“We urge Nigerians to stand firm in support of our great Party, and the visionary leadership of President Bola Tinubu as we continue the arduous task of building progress and prosperity in all areas of our national life,” the APC spokesman added.
