Press Release (April 4, 2012)

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APRIL 4, 2012

PRESS RELEASE 

ACN, Quo Agendum- What is your agenda? 

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the call by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) on the National Assembly to impeach the President as recklessly infantile and the hallmark of a political party  whose provincial obsession and pretended nationalism have left mercilessly hobbled; hence the perennial perchance for antics of destabilisation.  

In a statement in Abuja by the National Publicity Secretary of the Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, the PDP said its National Chairman, Dr. Bamanga Turkur is  deeply worried by the incessant destructive hue of an opposition , who though bereft of a credible alternative model, still struts the  stage in a jaundiced  illusion of a model driver of the perfect.

“The strength of any viable democracy lies in the mettle of a credible opposition. The PDP welcomes this. However, where the opposition is irresponsibly engrossed in making a mountain out of a mole hill and ceaselessly creating an imaginary tiger in the neighbourhood, it leaves no one in doubt that it is committed to a hidden agenda that neither benefits the nation nor ennobles the people.” 

“Let’s therefore ask the ACN; ‘quo agendum? ’ – whither your agenda?” Is it to destabilise the Federal Government and hasten the quest for a divided patria? Is it to gain what the opposition in their collective whole failed to achieve in April 2011 presidential election? Or still, is it a vengeance for the inability of the opposition to win successive five governorship elections, the nullification of some of which was achieved via judgements with questionable trends”?      

The PDP demanded from the ACN a proof to Nigerians that the rehabilitation a of a Community church by a construction company, an act which ordinarily falls under community relations has personally benefited the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. 

According to the PDP, it is very unfortunate that the ACN is ruffling the sensibilities of Nigerians at a material time that religion has been wrongly appropriated by unpatriotic elements to wreak chaos in parts of the nation.      

 The Party further warned the ACN not to distract the National Assembly. “We are not surprised the ACN is losing sleep over the maturity and stability that the National Assembly led by our great Party has gained in the last few years, much less its smooth working relationship with the executive. 

We therefore call on the National Assembly to disregard the ACN and remain focused in the joint effort to achieve the transformation of Nigeria. 

Chief Olisa Metuh

National Publicity Secretary