Chuks Okocha
5 September 2008
Abuja — Action Congress (AC) has again challenged the PDP to stop overheating the polity through fallacious claims, saying the ruling party should not add to the problems it has already created for Nigerians through poor governance and inept leadership.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in Abuja, yesterday, the party said the claim by the PDP that some gunmen came to attack its national secretariat in Abuja was nothing more than a red herring, "designed to divert attention from the growing discontent with the do-nothing ruling party."
It said the PDP, apparently shocked at the massive reprobation from the public reaction over its irresponsible coup scare alert, has chosen to cook up another imaginary problem to distract the citizenry, already weighed down by results of its failings, as manifested in rising unemployment, worsening infrastructure, hunger and lack of security, just to mention a few.
AC said since the PDP claimed the gunmen were arrested by the police, it should ask that they be paraded openly, and tell the public who their sponsors are.
"If indeed there are gunmen who came to attack the PDP secretariat, the party must look inwards to trace their origin. It is possible they are products of the PDP's nest of killers. And the party must prove its claim. It is not just enough to throw one spurious allegation after another. After all, the PDP and INEC once claimed that a tanker was to be used to bomb the INEC headquarters in Abuja, when in fact, that figment of their imagination was merely a ploy to divert attention from their joint project to rig the 2007 general elections.
"Several months on, the outcome of the so-called investigations into the allegation has not been made public, while the tanker has perhaps been released to the owner," AC said.
It said the PDP was beginning to sound like a broken record, seeing enemies everywhere and becoming afraid of its own shadows, because the party knows it has failed Nigerians and turned democracy to a tool for punishing them, instead of using it as a vehicle to better their lot.
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