The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dismissed threats by the All
Progressives Congress (APC) against the new leaders of the National
Assembly as empty boasts aimed to cover its naivety, inexperience and
unpreparedness for governance.
The PDP also admonished the APC to shed its arrogance, eat the humble pie
and get more organized for governance adding that it lacks the capacity,
capability and means to sanction duly elected leaders of the National
Assembly.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh in a statement on
Wednesday said the crass inexperience so far displayed by the APC is a
pointer that it is not adequately equipped to handle the affairs of
government at the center, noting that events would continue to prove the
PDP right in this regard.
“Nothing can be more astonishing than the whining by the APC that the PDP
at the last minute expressed its preference for Senator Bukola Saraki and
Hon. Yakubu Dogara as Senate President and Speaker of the House of
Representatives respectively after it had earlier stated that it was not
interested the positions.
This calls to question the capacity, experience and skills of APC leaders
on political matters and we have no apology whatsoever for their naivety.
“The APC is merely suffering the consequences of the greed, lust for power
and inordinate ambitions of their leaders. They should note that Nigerians
have since moved ahead with the new leaders in the National Assembly and
stop wasting their energy on propaganda and blackmails to heat up the
polity”.
The PDP further condemned Tuesday’s botched attempts by the APC to close
the National Assembly and stop lawmakers from carrying out their
constitutional duties, as well as the threats to the newly elected leaders
as “totally against the tenets of democracy, the principles of separation
of powers and independence of the legislature as enshrined in the
constitution”.
“Indeed, APC’s disdain for democratic norms, the rule of law and the
sanctity of the legislature, coupled with its excessive thirst for power
portends grave threat to our survival as a nation and calls for serious
concern among Nigerians and all lovers of democracy and freedom world
over”, the statement said.
The party however reaffirmed its determination to continue to work with
like minds from other political parties especially in the National
Assembly to ensure that the values of democracy and good governance it had
already entrenched in the polity are not eroded under the APC four years
rule.