The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, yesterday insisted that no amount of blackmail and attacks will deter the patriots who have come together under the All Progressives Congress, APC, to rescue the nation.
The party in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, particularly challenged the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which has continued to denigrate the oppositions' merger or attack the patriots behind the fusion to get ready to prove its mettle in the 2015 elections.
Describing the PDP as a big-for-nothing dysfunctional family that practises political cannibalism, hence its spiralling descent into ignominy, ACN maintained that anyone calling the PDP a "big family, united in freedom" may be suffering from hallucination.
It added that in spite of its continuous dismissal of the APC as a group of strange bedfellows, the PDP can only underrate the merger at its own peril. "A happy family needs no advertisement, because people know a happy family when they see one.
A happy family needs not draw attention to itself because happiness cannot be hidden. What the PDP is mistaking for happiness if a form of manic disorder. "As this vanishing family continues to sink, it has now degenerated to consuming its own members for survival. Nothing showed this more than the recent election of the Nigerian Governors' Forum, NGF. "Ever seen a party that is at war because its member won an election? Ever seen a family in which the father is seeking to devour his own son for achieving success?
Our sincere wish is that this sinking behemoth will somehow survive till 2015 so it can receive the drubbing of its life," ACN said. The party further said the truth of the matter is that the PDP is pathologically afraid of the APC, even in its yet-to-be registered form, hence the continuous campaign of calumny and crude attacks on its leaders.
Wondering why the ruling party is spending the time and energy that should have been focused on mending its tattered umbrella to worry about whether or not the merger will succeed or whether it will soon be in disarray, ACN said the PDP knows for sure that the coming into being of the APC signals its death knell.
ACN said: "There is some truth in the saying that anytime one sees a 'no thoroughfare' sign, there is definitely a way there. The PDP knows for sure that the coming into being of the APC signals its death knell.
"That is why it has been flailing aimlessly. But the die is cast. Nigeria needs to be rescued from these cannibals. No amount of blackmail, abuse, attacks or whatever will deter the patriots who have come together for just one purpose: To rescue Nigeria. "For those who will continue to denigrate this merger or attack the patriots behind the merger, even when there is no reason for it we say, bring it on!"
National Mirror
Of course no Nigerian political party would love to experience any blackmail from any other political party right about now.