Wednesday, February 04, 2015

We Are Not For Interim Government, Poll Shift – PDP


Chief Femi Fani-Kayode

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has denied alleged plots to install an interim government in the country if President Goodluck Jonathan loses the presidential election. The party also denied rooting for a shift in the February poll.

The opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the ruling party of instigating a shift in dates of election and plotting to scuttle the poll, with the view to installing an interim government in the country.

But Director of Media and Publicity of the PDP presidential campaign organization, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, denied the allegations, describing them as disingenuous, tenuous and shameful, The Nation reports.

“This is because it is common knowledge that the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria does not provide for the Interim Nation Government contraption that the APC talks about,” Fani-Kayode stated at a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday.

The PDP faulted the spokesman of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, accusing him of building up seemingly scary scenarios to create tension, cause panic in the polity and incite supporters of his party and well-meaning Nigerians against the Federal Government, President Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP.

The ruling party urged the Nigerian people to discountenance APC and Lai Mohammed’s “petty lies,” assuring all arms of government were patriotically committed to discharging their constitutionally-prescribed responsibilities and duties.

He said: “We believe that the APC’s unconscionable alarm is part of its characteristic and habitual propaganda through which it has over and over again imposed its skewed agenda on many undiscerning Nigerians.

“We are constrained to take this opportunity to paint an accurate portrait of the APC and its leaders. It is time for us to expose them for what they really are. The truth is that they are agents of destabilization.

“These are comprise of retrogressive elements that are desperate to take power just for the sake of it. If they ever succeed in taking power in this country, God forbid, they will take the country back into darkness because they represent darkness and everything that is reprehensible.

“We, as a party, will not allow them to damage the good work that the PDP, most especially the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, has done to transform our nation.

“The APC can go on its illusive flight of self-importance, but it is now increasingly clear to every Nigerian at home and in the Diaspora as well as members of the International Community that the opposition party is excessively desperate for presidential power and has imported unrestrained violence into our body-politic.

“The truth is that they cannot win the forthcoming elections and they know it. That is why they have come up with the allegation of Interim National Government. Those who want Interim National Government are the APC and some elements that are secretly behind their party.

“Their plan is to prepare a fertile ground upon which to discredit our anticipated victory at the polls, unleash anarchy and violence on the country after they lose so that we would not be able to enjoy our victory. By the grace of God and the support of a vast majority of Nigerians, their plan will fail.
Fani-Kayode accused the APC of subjecting the nation to what he described as a dress rehearsal of the monumental violence that the party was planning.

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