President Muhammadu Buhari during APC’s mega rally ahead Anambra governorship election (photo: State House)
The ruling All Progressives Congress has told the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, that Nigerians are not gullible to give it another mandate in the 2019 elections.
Spokesman for the party Bolaji Abdullahi stated that the APC was increasingly surprised at PDP’s “new found proclivity for constantly spewing falsehood in the name of opposition rhetoric and politics.”
He said, “While it is a widely known fact that suppressing the opposition was the stock in trade of the PDP during its defunct 16-year rule, the APC has definitely not inherited this undemocratic practice in its governance style.”
As stated by him, the PDP, while in government, illegally and routinely used state apparatus to harass opposition figures.
He stated that such could be seen in the attack on APC data centre in Lagos, blockade of the air and road routes to prevent movement of then opposition leaders in the lead-up to the 2015 elections among other clampdowns.
He added that it was unfortunate that the PDP was quick to forget the divisive, insensitive and sectional politics it played during the 2015 electioneering campaign.
“The PDP without an iota of proof, rather spewing laughable conspiracies, accuses the APC-led administration of barefaced looting.
“Elections are around the corner and Nigerians are not gullible.
“They see through the PDP’s diversionary antics aimed at deflecting attention from the wanton culture of impunity and corruption it instituted when it held sway,” Abudullahi added.