Impeachment saga: PDP challenges APC to produce of evidences corroboration via @iKanzee_RR

Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),
said it had never been involved in any
impeachment of any state governor or other
political office holders.
Mr Olisa Metuh, the party’s National Publicity
Secretary, stated thus at a news conference in
Abuja on Tuesday.
Metuh debunked insinuations that the PDP
and the Federal Government were responsible
for the current move to impeach the Nasarawa
state governor by the state House of
Assembly.
“We are bold to claim that nobody on either
side of the divide in Nasarawa state can claim
the involvement of the Presidency or that of
our national leadership in the impeachment
saga.
“The PDP challenges APC leadership to
produce any corroboration of this allegation
within the government of Nasarawa State.
“The Governor of Nasarawa state has never
and can never lay claim to the complicity of
the presidency and the PDP leadership in this
matter’’, Metuh said.
On the impeachment in Adamawa and similar
developments in other states, the PDP
national publicity secretary restated the
party`s respect for the principle of separation
of powers.
The PDP charged its members in state Houses
of Assembly to be guided by due process and
rule of law in the execution of their legislative
duties.
“We urge our members in all state legislatures
to thread with caution and be guided by due
process and the rule of law in the execution of
their legislative duties’’, Metuh said.
He said the leadership of APC had been
condemning the PDP-led federal government,
stressing that the pronouncement of its
leaders were not mere coincidence or vain
statements.
Metuh said they were part of APC`s larger plot
to build a groundswell of negativity.
The PDP spokesman maintained that the
ultimate aim of the APC was to truncate the
country`s hard earned democracy.
He said that recent events involving the
opposition indicated that they were the real
causative agents of the issues they accused
the federal government and the PDP of.
According to him, the APC leadership had
turned around in condemnation simply
because they are currently suffering a self-
inflicted reversal of fortune.
He said, “while the APC harps on perceived
infractions or failings of the PDP, they
conveniently ignore the fact that their actions
and inactions posed the greatest threat to
democracy.’’
Metuh said that for over a year, APC
leadership had sustained attacks on critical
government institutions and had also
committed enormous efforts in fanning the
ambers of violence and division among
Nigerians.
This, he said, was with the aim of
destabilising the PDP-led federal government,
weaken government institutions and truncate
the country`s democracy.
He stressed that APC leaders had been at the
centre of actions and utterances that had in
no small measure been promoting hatred,
violence and division in the polity.
This, he said, were the very acts that
embolden insurgency and pave the way for the
ignoble, adding that APC`s design was to
overheat the system and weaken the nation`s
democracy.
Metuh noted that the APC had on many
occasions labeled federal legislatures as
corrupt, accusing them of receiving millions of
dollars to do PDP’s bidding and calling state
legislature “pliant assemblies.”
The APC, he stressed, had also engaged in
spirited attempts to turn the heat on the
judiciary each time a judgment was passed
against it and had continued to project INEC
as partisan.
“However, the same APC described the INEC in
superlatives when they won the Edo state
governorship election’’, Metuh said.
He added that the military was not left out in
APC’s agenda of destruction as it had
continued to project it as weak, compromised
and incapable of giving protection to
Nigerians.
All this, he said, was in their determination to
undermine the PDP-led federal government.
He called on Nigerians to be alert to the anti-
democratic activities of the APC.
Metuh noted that democratically elected local
government councils in Imo state were sacked
by the state’s APC-led government to the
disdain and chagrin of the citizens.
The same scenario, he said, played out in
Rivers where the APC-led government sacked
the elected Chairman of Obio/Akpo Local
Council and in Edo, where the Governor
dissolved elected councilors before the
expiration of their tenure.
“In Edo, Nasarawa and Lagos states, our great
party won seats in the local government
elections only for the APC-led state
governments to upturn the results in their
favour.
“Nigerians can only imagine what will be the
order of the day if the APC is in control of the
centre’’, he said (NAN)