The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the Police and the Department of State Services (DSS) to investigate the foiled attack on the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in Adamawa, just as it dismissed it as baseless.
A statement issued on Tuesday night in Abuja and signed by Felix Morka, APC National Publicity Secretary, decried the claim by the PDP that the APC was the mastermind of the failed attack.
The APC NWC, which accused the former Vice President of peddling “criminal blackmail and wicked falsehoods in the name of opposition politics, unrestrained and without accountability,” tasked “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 statement reads in part: ‘In continuation of its vacuous and mindless campaign of calumny, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that suspected members of the 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.
This bizarre and senseless allegation comes only days after the same badly ailing Party alleged, without a shred of substantiation, that the 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.
“It is downright irresponsible for the PDP to continuously politicize serious matters of security and national importance for its vain and macabre humour. As an age-old Party, this ceaseless display of egregious incivility in the conduct of its affairs is disgraceful and SAD.
“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. Atiku Abubakar is a citizen of Nigeria and deserves the fullest protection of the law. Our law enforcement authorities must protect and investigate any threat to his person, family, or assets and prosecute offenders.
“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.
“Nigerians roundly rejected the PDP at the polls. 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 Ahmed Tinubu, they have chosen to busy themselves with swimming in an abysmal pool of lies and mischief.
“While vigorously defending our legitimate and popular election mandate in court, our Party will continue to win the hearts and minds of Nigerians through President Tinubu’s strategic program of social and economic development designed to improve the living conditions of our people.”
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