The All Progressives Congress, APC, has slammed the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for what it termed a call for external intervention in Nigeria.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Felix Morka, said in a statement on Tuesday that the appeal was irresponsible and unpatriotic.
The new factional chairman of the PDP, Tanimu Turaki, during a briefing with journalists on Tuesday regarding the turmoil within his party, urged foreign nations to step into Nigeria to halt an alleged “Christian genocide” and defend democracy.
Responding, the APC spokesperson noted that Turaki looked desperate, overwhelmed, unclear, disorganized, and clearly lacking the strength and competence to handle his party’s turmoil.
He said Nigerians believed Turaki would immediately embark on efforts to reconcile his party’s feuding blocs through dialogue and find workable routes to unity and restoration.
“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. This is not only reckless and unpatriotic but shameless and 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 crises within opposition parties of that era.
“We trust the international community to dismiss the PDP’s disgraceful and unpatriotic call as a pitiful distraction from the failure of its internal democracy and embarrassing disintegration,” Morka said.
