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FG raises alarm:  PDP, Atiku sabotaging government

Ezekiel Johnson
Ezekiel Johnson
FG replies opposition: You are shameless sore losers
Lai Mohammed

The Federal Government has raised the alarm that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its presidential candidate in the last general election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, have been sabotaging its efforts.

It described the actions of the PDP and Atiku after losing the election as unpatriotic and desperate.

It warned however that they might soon over reach themselves.

The Federal Government’s position was made known on Wednesday by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, when he spoke with State House correspondents.

The government warned that if not stopped, the actions of the PDP and Atiku could affect the activities of the government adversely.

Said the minister:  “Never in the history of politics in Nigeria has an opposition party and its presidential candidate exhibited the kind of desperate tactics being deployed by the duo of the PDP and its flag-bearer, especially since President Muhammadu Buhari overwhelmingly defeated Atiku to win the 2019 presidential election.

“Either by themselves or via their proxies, the PDP and its presidential candidate are doing everything possible to sabotage the Buhari Administration, generally overheat the polity and make Nigeria seemingly ungovernable, especially through their public utterances and their poorly-thought-out press releases before and after the 2019 general elections.

“Unless they quickly retrace their steps, they may, sooner than later, overreach themselves.”

Mohammed said for those who might want to accuse the government of crying wolf, the pre-election statement credited to Atiku that unless Nigerians voted out the APC administration, killings by herdsmen would continue and ultimately spark a series of ethno-religious crises that would be irreversible, was looking “more like a Freudian slip than anything else.”

He said the attack on the judiciary by the PDP in recent time was one of the desperate moves.

He stated further:  “And either by coincidence or orchestration, a faceless group emerges from nowhere calling for an overthrow of a democratically-elected government, a totally egregious act of treason.

“It beggars belief that a candidate who prides himself as a democrat can so allow desperation to becloud his sense of propriety to such an extent that he will be associating with anti-democratic forces or making inflammatory statements.”

Mohammed said rather than sabotage, PDP and Atiku should go through acceptable channels to seek redress if they felt aggrieved.

“What is not acceptable is to either resort to self-help after an election defeat, or to embark on a journey of subterfuge and sabotage while also mounting a legal challenge or pretending to do so.

“Worst still, painting the judiciary bad for whatever reason is anti-democratic and unconscionable,” he warned.

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