PDP denies linking APC with Islamic Agenda

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By Ehi Ekhator, Naija Center News.

The Peoples Democratic Party has caution the media aide of the former vice president of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar to desist from associating him with ”propaganda, political mudslinging and character assassination”, which according to PDP, APC is notorious for.

Olisah Metuh

The party also stated that it would not join issue with any former members who left the party for the All Progressives Congress because they were one family, adding that the APC have gone on rabid attack on the Presidency and the leadership of the PDP.

Though PDP denied linking APC with Islamic agenda but stand by their position that the opposition is a party of selfish, religious and ethnic bigots pursuing a Janjaweed ideology.

This was contained in a statement issued by the party National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh.

Metuh said ”The APC and its leaders are embittered that the PDP machinery has been able to effectively expose and profile them as they truly are. They are in pains that Nigerians now know that the APC has no agenda rather a platform for selfish individuals pursuing personal and parochial agenda using blackmail, propaganda and promotion of violence as means to achieve political control.

”The APC leaders are bitter because they have been confronted with a PDP that is not afraid to label them in their true colour despite personal threats, media attacks and character assassination to cow and deter us.”

PDP reiterated that it would continue to expose APC for its evil agenda including their use of religion as a cover for narrow political ambitions.

Metuh added ”On the issue of APC having an Islamic agenda, it is known to all and sundry that the the PDP never labelled it as such. We merely, in our statement of January 7, 2014 drew the attention of Nigerians to the revelation by an Islamic cleric, Ambassador Yusuf Garba and the Religious Equity Promotion Council (REPC) that the APC was seeking to impose on Nigeria, an agenda akin to that of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

”In any case, we insist that it is completely out of place for any body to associate APC with Islam which is a religion of peace and does not preach violence, greed, destruction and lust for power which are the trademarks of the APC.”

The PDP restate that some of these APC leaders by their utterances and conducts are not good Muslims, adding that it cannot associate a party made up of anarchists bound together by the lust for power and desperation to rule by any means including promoting violence and division in Nigeria with Islam.

It said ”On the other hand, the PDP has committed Muslims who are worshiping Allah in truth more than the APC. Many of the founding fathers and critical stakeholders of the PDP are Muslims. The leader of the administration of the PDP is a committed and dedicated Muslim. We have responsible and committed Muslims as ministers, state governors, legislators and among our leaders at the national, state, local government and ward levels across the country. In this regard, no party can be said to have better respect for Islam than the PDP.

”Our quarrel with the APC is their use of religion and ethnicity to canvass for votes and membership, a practice which is clearly inimical to the progress and development of our democracy.

”Our final advice to the media handlers of our esteemed former Vice President, His Excellency, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is that they should remember that we were once together and shared great vision. In spite of any personal interest, the PDP as a platform remains better than the APC. Indeed the APC is not an alternative. It has no vision and is completely lacking in ideology. It is unfortunate that our former members have chosen to board the wrong vehicle, indeed, ‘a one-chance bus’.”

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PDP denies linking APC with Islamic Agenda