The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has urged security services to summon PDP leaders for questioning in response to repeated attacks on INEC offices and allegations by the Peoples Democratic Party PDP that some ruling party officials were determined to scuttle the 2023 general election.
The APC contended that PDP must provide evidence to support its assertions because it usually takes a thief to catch a thief.
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The claims were made in a statement on Wednesday by Mr. Festus Keyamo SAN, Minister of State for Labor and Employment and Chief Spokesperson for the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council PCC.
Keyamo was reacting to a news conference by the PDP leadership wherein it accused ruling party officials of inciting violence in the lead up to the polls.
The APC campaign spokesman said;
We note with concern the incoherent and convoluted Press Statement issued today by the ethically-challenged Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yet again raising alarm about certain plots to incite violence and derail the 2023 polls and having ‘credible information’ as to those unleashing violence in certain parts of the country.
This Press Statement, coming just barely 48 hours after one of its former officials was convicted by a court of law over illegal acts committed during an election over which the PDP government presided is just a pointer to the lowest level of moral debauchery to which the PDP has sunk. It operates without an iota of shame or respect for the Nigerian people. Instead of continuous apologies for those grievous acts of election rigging, money-laundering and other electoral malpractices, it continues to pontificate.
“We therefore call on the law-enforcement agencies to, as a matter of urgency, invite the PDP leaders for immediate questioning,” he said, citing the PDP’s most recent press release that claimed to have “credible information” about certain individuals plotting to scuttle the 2023 elections, including acts of arson already committed against INEC facilities.
Keyamo asserted that the PDP is required to disclose information on the location, date, and attendees of any such meeting.
Other information he said the PDP must provide are;
The identities of those who committed these acts of arson on the facilities of INEC, and the information must also include the identity of those who sponsored these individuals (if any).
He said the PDP should realize that an electioneering process is a very serious business and not a time to issue baseless and infantile statements out of want of something to say to the Nigerian people.
Keyamo further clarified;
The PDP should not joke or play politics with grave security matters. Having ‘credible information’ as to plots and individuals relating to the attack on INEC offices currently, further plots to disrupt elections is, indeed, a matter of national security.
This is therefore a notice to our las enforcement agencies to immediately invite the PDP leaders for questioning. After all, it takes a thief to catch a thief.
