In a statement by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi, Fayose said the APC wants the PDP dead because it does not want a virile opposition to challenge its “obnoxious policies and inability to tackle the problems confronting the country.”
According to Fayose, a virile opposition was a vital ingredient for democracy and necessary to make democracy thrive and silencing opposition will not be in the interest of the country and Nigerians at large.
The governor further revealed that the condoning off of the Sharks Stadium, Port Harcourt, the proposed venue of the PDP’s National Convention by the police on the orders of the Inspector General of Police, had the input of the APC-led Federal Government, adding that the police was only acting a script written by the APC-led government.
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“I witnessed what the police did early today in Port Harcourt, it is most unfortunate. It has shown that we are indeed in a perilous time in the country. The APC is desperate to kill opposition and silence others because they are afraid that their inability to properly govern the country and tackle the challenges facing us as a nation would be exposed by a virile PDP.
“The Buhari government is dictatorial. There is tension everywhere. All sectors are down and they are focusing on killing the opposition. What business has APC with PDP internal matters?
“If they said they wanted to act on court orders, why didn’t they act on more than four orders that were in favour of the Markafi group? They don’t have answers to the terrible situations in the country but they know that an organised PDP will be embloden to challenge them,” he said.