APC Urges DSS, Police to Investigate PDP’s Allegation on Foiled Attack on Atiku
Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on the police and the Department of State Security (DSS) to investigate the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) allegation of Boko Haram terrorist group arrested by the Police following their foiled plot to attack the residence on former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Felix Morka in a statement issued Tuesday accused PDP of spewing lies and gibberish.
He said this bizarre and senseless allegation comes days after the same badly ailing PDP alleged, without a shred of substantiation, that APC was engaged in a plot to intimidate members of the judiciary seeking to influence the outcome of pending cases before the Election Petitions Courts.
Morka noted, “In continuation of its vacuous and mindless campaign of calumny, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that suspected members of Boko Haram terrorist group arrested by the Police following their foiled plot to attack the residence of Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President, in Yola, were sponsored by the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“Spewing lies and gibberish has become the PDP’s obsessive preoccupation following its crushing defeat in the last Presidential Election.
“It is downright irresponsible for the PDP to continuously politicize serious matters of security and national importance for its vain and macabre humor. As an age-old Party, this ceaseless display of egregious incivility in the conduct of its affairs is disgraceful and sad.”
The ruling party noted that the acts of terror or involvement in a terrorist plot are heinous crimes under the law and the PDP cannot continue to bandy allegations around without justification.
Morka added that Atiku is a citizen of Nigeria and deserves the fullest protection of the law, adding that the law enforcement authorities must protect and investigate any threat to his person, family or assets and prosecute offenders.
He added: “However, Atiku Abubakar’s PDP cannot continue to peddle criminal blackmail and wicked falsehoods in the name of opposition politics, unrestrained and without accountability.
“We call on the Police, Department of State Services (DSS) and other relevant security services to investigate the PDP’s wild and bogus allegations, invite the PDP’s leadership to substantiate these claims and bring the perpetrators to justice.”
The spokesperson stressed that Nigerians roundly rejected the PDP at the polls, saying rather than engage in some introspection and give the court the time of day to deliver a verdict in the case, they have brought challenging the election of President Bola Tinubu, they have chosen to busy themselves with swimming in abysmal pool of lies and mischief.
