*Ruling party urges PDP to produce Daura’s APC card
In a statement issued in Lagos on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party challenged the PDP to publish any evidence it may have to confirm the allegation, adding: ”After all, it is trite that he who alleges must prove.”
”In the absence of that, the PDP must call another press conference to publicly apologize to all Nigerians for engaging in barefaced lies,” it said.
APC expressed shock that the PDP has started exhibiting all the symptoms of hallucination so soon after its gravy train derailed, saying it’s obvious that the party has now started hearing voices.
”We know that the psyche of the PDP has been badly affected by its loss of power at the centre. Even the party itself has admitted that much. That situation has now been compounded by the fact that the
party is broke. It is therefore not a surprise that it is no longer able to think straight. The reality of its new situation is just beginning to dawn on it.
”But we warned the PDP early on that being in opposition is not a walk in the park. We warned that while the party was used to eating its bread with butter on both sides, it will now be lucky to even have
bread to it,” the party said.
It warned the PDP to spend more time in patching its tattered and battered umbrella than acting as a cog in the wheel of progress of the new Administration.
The APC reaction was provoked by the allegation by the PDP that Daura is a member of the APC and should be sacked by President Muhammadu Buhari
Acting National Chairman of PDP, Mr Uche Secondus, made the call at a news conference shortly after its weekly National Working Committee (NWC), meeting in Abuja on Wednesday.
Secondus said the DSS boss was an APC member; and would therefore not be fair to all political parties.
In a communiqué, the NWC decried what it called the continued intimidation, harassment, hounding, arrest and detention of electoral officers and members of election tribunals by DSS in Rivers, Akwa-Ibom and other PDP states.
“This unfortunate development has been the case since the appointment of the new Director General of the DSS, Alhaji Lawal Daura.