PDP accuses APC of warmongering

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused President Bola Tinubu and his ruling All Progressives Congress of warmongering. According to the opposition party, the President and his party are trying to plunge the nation into a needless war with a brotherly nation in a desperate bid to cling to power.


National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Debo Ologunagba, who stated this in Abuja yesterday, said the PDP strongly condemned what it called “the desperation by Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress, APC, “ to plunge Nigeria into a state of war by dragging the military into a needless conflict with the Niger Republic.


Ologunagba said: “The PDP observes that the insistence by the APC administration to draft Nigerian soldiers into Niger Republic in defiance to the disapproval by the National Assembly and Nigerians across the board, validates apprehensions in the public domain of ulterior motives by the Tinubu-led APC to import crisis and destabilize our nation for political reasons.


“While the PDP frowns at the unconstitutional change of government in any part of the world, our party holds that the situation in Niger Republic does not warrant any external peace-keeping effort and does not constitute any threats whatsoever to our national interest to justify committing our already overstretched military to harm’s way in a needless war. “The insistence of the APC government to go to war in the Niger Republic is already heightening tension in Nigeria.


“There are insinuations in the public that the APC is only desperate to deploy Nigerian military to Niger Republic so as to provoke possible external aggression from that country, thereby orchestrating a situation for the declaration of a State of Emergency in Nigeria with the tendency to cripple the judicial process on the 2023 Presidential election and divert attention from the hardship the APC has foisted on the nation in the last two months.


“It is apparent that the APC is desperate to orchestrate a situation of ‘imminent danger of invasion or involvement in a state of war’ so as to have the excuse to declare a State of Emergency under Section 305 (3) (a) and (b) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended). “The PDP holds that nothing else can explain why the APC administration is eager to go to war in Niger Republic while it has practically turned a blind eye to the insecurity situation in our country, even with the mindless killing of over 500 innocent Nigerians in Plateau, Benue, Niger, Kaduna and other states of the federation since May 2023.


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