ATIKU: APC Calls PDP ‘Irresponsible’ Other Parties ‘Mushroom’

The ruling all progressives congress (APC) has slammed the main opposition peoples democratic party (PDP) for accusing the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration of mounting undue pressure on the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Tanko Muhammad, to accept “a handpicked panel” of justices to sit on Atiku Abubakar’s presidential appeal petition at the Supreme Court.

Atiku was the candidate of the PDP in the February 23, 2019, presidential election in which President Buhari was declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

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The PDP candidate approached the Supreme Court to appeal the judgment of the presidential election petitions tribunal which dismissed his petition against the declaration of Buhari as the winner.

Speaking through the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) at a press conference held in Abuja on Thursday, the PDP had accused APC of triggering “disquiet and bad blood” at the Supreme Court by its alleged attempt to desecrate “the highest temple of justice in the land.”

Spokesperson of the CUPP, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, had said, “The opposition and most Nigerians will not accept a handpicked panel, neither will the pronouncement of such panel command the requite respect and confidence of the people of Nigeria and we in the opposition.”

But reacting in a statement sent to THE WHISTLER on Sunday, the APC, through its national spokesperson, Lanre Issa-Onilu, said the PDP had “become a joke, irresponsible and rudderless.”

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The ruling party also described other opposition parties under the CUPP as “mushroom parties” that are filled with “incurable charlatans issuing infantile weekly press statements on behalf of the PDP.”

The ruling party regretted that the country was allegedly “becoming a one-party state,” saying the political system being practiced in the country “has important roles for the political parties outside of power.”

The APC said, “Instead, the PDP and their minions have in the name of opposition continued to distract the government and Nigerians with their post-election delusions, salacious fictions, conjured rifts in government circle and of course the lowest of it all, the pathetic and senseless Jubril of Sudan malicious tale, among other fake news. Tragic!

“It is sad that PDP has finally proved incapable of filling this important democratic space,” the ruling party said, adding that, “The so called Congress of United Political Parties (CUPP), which could have filled the vacuum and engaged the APC administration in useful debates over governance, has become a comedy theater group and frontline PDP minion. CUPP has the unenviable mandate to try to intimidate and blackmail important state institutions such as INEC, the judiciary, and security agencies, on behalf of PDP with the hope of gaining political advantage having been rejected by most of the voters.”

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