Shocking! PDP Exposes the Real Reason Why Buhari is Prosecuting Dasuki

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says President Muhammadu is persecuting Sambo Dasuki, former national security adviser (NSA), out of suspicion that he is nursing a 2019 presidential ambition. The party states that the APC-led government is evidently looking for destruction of the PDP so that it can push through Buhari’s second term in 2019 without opposition.
In a statement by Olisa Metuh, its spokesman,  the Party denied the claiming made by the APC leadership that the PDP is denigrating the office of the President Muhammadu Buhari. According to Metuh, the party has been lenient in its critiques of the government.

The statement reads in part:

 This has also confirmed our concern that this is the reason the Federal government is persecuting, and not prosecuting, Col. Sambo Dasuki.

The APC and its leaders fear that Dasuki, given his vast political and security network, may be harbouring a presidential ambition, more so that the PDP has zoned its presidential ticket to the north.
The PDP is conversant with the sinister plan by the APC-led Federal government to completely decimate our party by raking up all manner of allegations of corruption against the Goodluck Jonathan administration and leaders of the PDP with a view to taking them to court on orchestrated charges.
Besides, it is sad and embarrassing that President Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade has now been reduced to a war between the APC and the PDP as declared by the Office of his spokespersons. Since they have confirmed that this is what the anti-corruption crusade is all about, the APC is obviously seeking to destroy the PDP so that it can push through Buhari’s second tenure in 2019 without opposition from the PDP.

It is unfortunate that the APC and its leaders, who gleefully and unjustifiably poured invective on former President Goodluck Jonathan in the guise of playing the role of an opposition party, would now not want to condone criticisms, 

Unlike the APC that denigrated the office and person of former President Jonathan by wrongly depicting him as ‘clueless and incompetent’, the PDP remains the most decent, mature and constructive opposition party in our democracy and we have evidenced great respect for the person and exalted office of President Muhammadu Buhari.

During the Goodluck Jonathan presidency, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, while in the saddle as interim Deputy National Secretary of the APC, in a post on his twitter page, described President Jonathan as ‘lazy, docile, incompetent, clueless, hopeless and useless leader.’ Other APC leaders made raining abuses on Jonathan a past time.

The PDP is a very responsible opposition party; our leaders are mature; and we have demonstrated so in our critique of the President’s responses during the maiden Presidential Media Chat. We have reviewed President Buhari’s performance and concluded that it was uninspiring

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The entire world listened to President Buhari during the chat and went away with different impressions. We did and came up with the theme of our initial reaction that portrayed him very appropriately as a tyrant. And for purpose of clarity, a tyrant is a ruler who has complete power over a country and who uses the power in a cruel and unfair way, which was why we recommended the suspension of the operation of the constitution so he can rule for the next four years as a maximum ruler.

In its reaction, his party National Chairman, John Oyegun magisterially and dictatorially warned that ‘we (APC) may not condone such anymore.’ Our position in the PDP is that we are in trouble as a nation. All we hear from the APC regarding our freedom is ‘we won’t tolerate’, ‘we won’t condone.’ Are these words used by democrats or tyrants?

“So, the PDP too is being warned and coerced on what to say as opposition party. The PDP must be commended for the civil, responsible, mature, issue-based opposition it has played. The nation knows how the APC rained insults on former President Jonathan and that the PDP, during that time, never used words like ‘it would not condone…’

Some have even criticised the PDP style of opposition as being too civil considering the tyranny we are facing,

 “Finally we are aware that President Buhari has directed security agencies to be more vicious in dealing with our members and has continued to subtly coerce the judiciary to convict those being charged to court. But what gives us joy is that President Buhari is not God and we will not worship him. the statement said.