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Chief Femi
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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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