PDP Condemns APC’s Plot to Sack Public Servants

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has decried as extremely wicked,
reprehensible and unacceptable, the exposed plot by the All Progressives
Congress (APC) to clampdown, victimize and sack workers as well as
appointees in ministries, departments and agencies ahead of the 2019
Presidential election.

Nigerians were terrified when APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed
Tinubu at the party’s National Convention revealed the party’s plan to
undertake a blanket victimization of federal civil servants and
appointees perceived to favour or habour opinions different from those
of the APC.

Our investigation reveals that part of the plot, which is feared might
even commence soon, is to frame up such public servants as fifth
columnists as openly suggested by Asiwaju Tinubu and hang spurious
allegations on them for political reasons.

The PDP totally condemn this vicious scheme to victimize our federal
workers or cause any one of them to suffer any hurt because of APC’s
re-election quest. We insist that this desperation for power by the APC
should not in any way, or under any guise whatsoever lead to the
victimization of workers at any level across our country.

Under our laws as a nation, Nigerian workers, like other citizens, have
the right to opinion and choice of who to vote for at elections and
nobody has the powers to molest or threaten them in the exercise of such
rights.

It is on record that throughout the years of the PDP in government at
the center, no worker or public servant, at any level, was intimidated
or coerced in any form for his or her political opinion or preferences.

We know that the Buhari Presidency and the APC is jittery ahead of the
elections but such burden should not be placed on the shoulders of our
workers and we urge the workers to note those to hold responsible should
any harm befall any of them.

Finally, the PDP urges all Nigerians workers to be at alert, especially
as the APC will use its agents to attempt to divide their ranks in
furtherance of the plot.

Nigerians must therefore ensure that all citizens are protected by
working together on the platform of the repositioned PDP to rescue the
nation from the wicked clutches of the anti-people APC, come 2019.