2019: Hold APC Responsible Should Harm Befall Atiku, Others, PDP Insists

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the All Progressives Congress 
(APC) should be held responsible should any harm befall former Vice 
President Abubakar Atiku or any of the PDP Presidential aspirants ahead 
of the 2019 general elections.

PDP’s position is predicated on its comprehensive consideration of all 
issues relating to the threats to the life of the former Vice President, 
as well as similar threats and harassments of other presidential 
aspirants in our fold, just as our party places all these threats at the 
doorstep of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC.

The PDP do not take these threats as a ruse and we demand an open 
inquest into all the issues raised by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in his 
petition to President Buhari.

It is public knowledge that the APC has been on frenetic mode over the 
caliber and popularity of Presidential aspirants arraying in our party 
platform.

The APC knows that President Buhari is no match for any of our aspirants 
hence the resort to violence, harassment and death threats, with a view 
to frighten and put our presidential aspirants out of circulation ahead 
of the 2019 elections.

Nigerians are already aware of how the APC-led Government has been using 
security and anti-corruption agencies, particularly the Police, 
Department of State Services (DSS) and the Economic and Financial Crimes 
Commission (EFCC) to harass and hound presidential hopefuls and 
perceived political opponents of the President, as well as the members 
of our party on various trumped-up allegations and charges.

The dysfunctional APC has become distraught by the resurge of Nigerians 
to our platform since the commencement of electioneering activities, 
while the APC national secretariat and its state offices have become 
deserted like graveyards.

Rather than accepting the reality of their failures ahead of the 2019 
elections, the APC has scaled up its proclivities for violence against 
the opposition.

Only last week, the APC unleashed their thugs to attack our national 
secretariat with charms and dangerous weapons and attempted to disrupt 
our activities. This is in addition to series of other attacks on our 
members in various parts of the country by APC sponsored thugs.

The PDP wants the APC to note that, in all, it is fighting a lost 
battle. The PDP family will never be cowed or intimidated by the evil 
machinations of the APC as we stand shoulder to shoulder with majority 
of Nigerians, across the board, in this national emergency of ending the 
misrule of the Buhari-led administration, which has caused so much harm 
to our dear nation.