Ike Ekweremadu
The All Progressives Congress on Thursday dismissed claims by the Peoples Democratic Party that the APC was behind the attempt on the life of the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu as hallucination.
The APC said this in reaction to a statement credited to the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisah Metuh, that the governing party was behind the attempt to attack the Deputy Senate President.
Metuh had alleged, among other things, that the alleged attack on Ekweremadu was part of a larger plot to eliminate key opposition leaders.
In his reaction to the allegation, the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr. Timi Frank, accused the opposition party of cheap blackmail.
According to him, it is sad and unfortunate that the PDP has yet to purge itself of its manipulative strategies which eventually led to its downfall in the 2015 election.
Frank said this in a statement he signed in Abuja. He explained that the PDP’s attempt at propaganda had failed because Nigerians now know better.
He asked the opposition party to come clean over the series of high profile killings which characterised its 16-year rule.
He said, “The past 16 years of the PDP’s rule saw a honorable minister, Chief Bola Ige, politicians such as Harry Marshall and Funso Williams assassinated with no attempt to unravel the mysteries that surrounded their deaths.
“It will, therefore, be unfortunate for the PDP to elevate this act it had perfected over the years to a propaganda tool.
“Nigerians all over the world know that President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC are more concerned with cleaning the mess the PDP-led government bequeathed” to the nation, more than anything else.
Frank urged Nigerians to disregard the opposition’s latest attempt to deceive them and distract the ruling party.
He said it was curious that the alleged assassination attempt on the nation’s number three citizen would go without any security report.
The governing party argued that the security situation left behind by the then ruling PDP left the governing party with no choice but to device creative ways of dealing with it.
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