The All Progressives Congress, APC, has criticised the Peoples Democratic Celebration, PDP, for calling what it described as a international invasion of Nigeria.
The Nationwide Publicity Secretary of the get together, Felix Morka, in a press release on Tuesday, described the decision as reckless and unpatriotic.
DAILY POST experiences that the brand new factional chairman of the PDP, Tanimu Turaki, whereas addressing journalists on Tuesday over the disaster ravaging his get together, called on foreign powers to intervene in Nigeria to save lots of the nation from alleged “Christian genocide” and to guard democracy.
Reacting, the APC spokesperson mentioned Turaki appeared determined, at his wit’s finish, confused, incoherent, and grossly missing in stamina and capability to handle his get together’s disaster.
In keeping with him, Nigerians anticipated that Turaki would set himself on an pressing peace-building mission to deliver his get together’s warring factions collectively in dialogue in the direction of discovering doable pathways to peace and reconciliation.
“Turaki’s first official act as factional chairman was his name for international invasion of Nigeria as an answer to the self-inflicted inside disaster of his PDP. This isn’t solely reckless and unpatriotic however shameless and it’s a harmful menace to nationwide safety and sovereignty.
“Beneath the PDP’s 16 years in energy, with its ruthless subversion of opposition events, there was by no means a name for international invasion of Nigeria as an answer to crises inside opposition events of that period.
“We belief the worldwide group to dismiss the PDP’s disgraceful and unpatriotic name as a pitiful distraction from the failure of its inside democracy and embarrassing disintegration,” Morka mentioned.
