The Presidency has accused the opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), of giving itself away as being interested only in the destabilization of the country, hoping it could use that to back to power in the country.
In a statement issued Tuesday, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said that less than 24 hours after the Department of State Services (DSS) raised alarm about sinister plots by some elements to cause disorder in the land, using the energy crisis as a smokescreen, the PDP issued a statement, saying; “Our party fears that the situation is getting to a boiling point and can trigger a nationwide agitation that might be worse than the October 2020 EndSARS if not addressed immediately.”
“Which patriotic political party or organization ever threatens its country with anarchy, social upheaval and disorderliness, except one still smarting from its snout being yanked from the honeypot, as happened to PDP in 2015?” Adesina asked in the statement.
Nigeria has been facing challenges with high prices and shortage of diesel, aviation fuel also known as Jet A1, while the national power grid has experienced disruptions a couple of times this month.
“But we wish to remind the now tepid opposition party that it was Nigerians that gave it the boot 7 years ago, and those same Nigerians have not forgotten the travails they experienced, at a time the country was awash with money: no power, no infrastructure, insurgents ran riot around the nation, and our collective patrimony was looted blind. Those same Nigerians are not ready for another PDP misrule, not now, and perhaps not for a long time to come,” the statement said.
Rather than plot and encourage “agitation worse than October 2020 EndSARS,” which it may well be conceiving, the PDP should work for harmony and cohesion in the country, if it ever understands such concept, the Adesina counselled the opposition.
It reminded the party that EndSARS signified murder, mayhem, mass destruction, even cannibalism, noting that “PDP now wishes Nigeria something worse”.
The statement noted that a presidential aspirant of the PDP has warned that the party would die by 2023, unless it wins the Number One position in the country. “And die it would, if the party wishes the country nothing except something worse than EndSARS,” the statement concluded.
