PDP denies alleged plot to incite Nigerians, disrupt polls

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned alleged plots by All Progressives Congress (APC) to unleash hate speech against prominent leaders in the North and other parts of the country in a desperate bid to incite Nigerians, cause insurrection and disrupt the 2023 general elections.

The party in a statement by the spokesperson of the Atiku-Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation, Kola Ologbondiyan, accused the APC Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of using incendiary statements as well as deployment of top members of his campaign, including a serving governor, to insult and condemn prominent Nigerian leaders as a ploy to trigger crisis in the polity.

Ologbondiyan said: “Our campaign invites Nigerians to note how notable arrowheads and supporters of the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign have been moving around various media houses to spew hate speeches and promote blackmailing narratives apparently with the view to undermining our national unity and derailing the electoral process.

“Such top officials of the Tinubu Campaign are also reportedly instructed to attack peaceful and well-meaning Nigerians, issue threats, incite mob actions, promote riots and violence in various parts of the country in furtherance of Tinubu’s unrelenting incitement to his followers to deploy violence, fight and snatch power by all means in the 2023 general elections.”

He recalled how Tinubu recently in London, declared to his followers that political power is not going to be served in a restaurant, it is not served a la carte. “It is what we are doing; it is being determined; you do it at all costs; fight for it, grab it, snatch it and run with it.

“Also, Nigerians can recall how Tinubu, in APC Campaign Rally in Abeokuta, Ogun State, made very wild allegations, incited his followers to see the February 25, presidential election as a revolution.

“It is, therefore, not in doubt that having failed in every parameter of assessing a credible presidential candidate and having realised that he cannot win in the election, the APC Presidential Candidate is desperately seeking to cause anarchy, mayhem, bloodletting, violence and a forcible overthrow of our democratic system not minding the lives and safety of millions of Nigerians.”

The statement noted that Tinubu is pathetically being driven by an entitlement mentality and as such, he does not care about the unity of our country.