By Gbade Ogunwale, Abuja
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the attack on the Benin home of National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Adams Oshiomhole signified the disintegration of APC.
Oshiomhole blamed Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki for the attack.
A statement yesterday by PDP’s spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the attack has further confirmed that the ‘dysfunctional’ APC has finally disintegrated.
The statement reads: “For APC members to publicly call their national chairman a ‘thief’, as reported, amply captures the mood of majority of Nigerians, including APC members, that the APC and its government are havens for thieves, criminal gangs and corrupt persons.
“The indisputable fact among Nigerians is that the APC has become torn apart within its core. The manifest greed of its leaders, particularly, in the Presidential villa, in addition to endless infighting over positions and looted resources, has further exposed the party as a soulless mob.
“The APC has never been a genuine platform for governance; it has neither the predisposition nor the design for operable people-oriented policy and programmes. If anything, it has remained a special purpose vehicle for power grabbing, hijacked by oppressive and exploitative cabal, who have no iota of interest in the welfare of Nigerians.
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“Indeed, the propensity of APC leaders at looting our common patrimony as well as the total neglect of the living conditions of the masses, whose mandate they had stolen, has become a huge source of anger and resentment in the hearts of Nigerians.
“Is it not absurd for the national chairman of a political party that claims to have won an election just a few months back to require the services of policemen and personal thugs to escape from Benin to Abuja? The Edo incident reminds of how Oshiomhole also allegedly fled the nation at the heat of his reported interrogation by the Department of State Services (DSS) in 2018 for alleged corruption. “The PDP, however, encourage Nigerians not to despair; there is always an end to any platform that does not have the care of the people as its primary goal in governance.
“Our party, which has remained the bastion of our collective consciousness as a nation, is at the Supreme Court, where Nigerians expect that justice will prevail in retrieving our stolen presidential mandate to end the nightmare of the APC.”