From Ayodele Samuel, Lagos
Labour Party National Secretary Barr. Olukayode Ajulo yesterday accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of planning to cause chaos in the 2015 general elections going by their unguarded utterances and inciting statements against the country.
Ajulo in a statement blasted the APC for celebrating insurgency and terrorism, and fanning the embers of further chaos rather than finding ways of assisting the government to fight it.
“The APC campaigns rather than being issue-based are characterised by name-calling, baseless fault-finding and dirty diatribes devoid of plans for Nigerians.”
Ajulo, a constitutional lawyer who also doubles as the Chairman of Egalitarian Mission for Africa, said going by the statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed on Sunday in Lagos, the APC has finally revealed its evil intention against Nigeria.
“These unguarded talks and schoolboy lampoon show how myopic and selfish a party that claimed to be progressive is in issues of national security that hold dire consequences for the entire citizenry” the Labour Party scribe said.
He noted that while vibrant opposition was necessary for democracy to flourish, the nation’s unity and peace must not be sacrificed on the altar of do-or-die politics.
“Apparently the APC is not set out to win the 2015 general election as it lacks the vision, capacity and strategy to do so. Rather, their mission is to make the country ungovernable going by the utterances credited to one of its major presidential contenders. It is instructive that the same bellicose posture and politically infantile proclamations presaged the violence that visited the outcome of the presidential polls in 2011. And what is more, certain parts of the country have remained virtually ungovernable since then!
“What stands out most is the fact that the party is playing politics with an issue like terrorism, an evil despised by the whole world. When America fought terrorism, it was viewed by both the Democrats and the Republicans as a national concern of all and not an issue for pedestrian postulations and dirty politicking” the party further said.
It advised the APC to refrain from further inciting Nigerians and pay due attention to the much more palpable issue of their fast dwindling followership saying: “if the APC has nothing to sell to Nigerians, it should gallantly withdraw from the presidential race which in any case it is poised to lose.”
