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Ruling All Progressives Congress APC on Tuesday denounced what it described as a dangerous and unpatriotic call by the newly declared factional chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Tanimu Turaki, for foreign powers to intervene in Nigeria’s domestic affairs.
Vanguard News reports that Turaki, who addressed journalists in Abuja earlier in the day, had urged the international community to step in to save Nigeria’s democracy in the wake of the promised intervention against “Christian genocide” in the country.
Party spokesman, Felix Morning, in a statement said Turaki’s remarks amounted to advocating a foreign invasion of Nigeria and posed a direct threat to national security and sovereignty.
The ruling party said Turaki, who emerged as factional chairman barely 72 hours ago, appeared “desperate, confused, incoherent and lacking the stamina to manage his party’s crisis.”
Instead of seeking reconciliation among warring factions in the PDP, the statement said, Turaki chose to escalate tensions by calling for external interference in a matter the APC described as a “self-inflicted internal crisis.”
The APC argued that even during the PDP’s 16-year rule, marked, in its words, by the “ruthless subversion of opposition parties”, no party leader ever sought a foreign invasion as a solution to internal political disputes.
Turaki’s comments, the ruling party maintained, were a confession of the opposition party’s inability to manage its internal contradictions and a further sign of its decline.
The statement added that the international community could easily see through what it called the PDP’s “embarrassing disintegration,” urging foreign partners to dismiss the call for intervention as a “pitiful distraction.”
It accused the PDP leadership of heightened desperation and warned that seeking foreign intrusion for political advantage amounted to crossing a red line.
Reaffirming its confidence in President Bola Tinubu’s leadership, the APC called on Nigerians to remain steadfast in supporting the administration’s efforts to build stability, progress and prosperity across the country.
SOURCE: VANGUARD NEWS.
