ACN alleges threat to democracy by PDP

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 THE Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has alleged threat to the nation's democracy by what it described as desperation of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to retain power at all cost, "judging by the party's glaring involvement in the ongoing efforts to sabotage the merger of the progressives."

But the senator representing Jigawa North-East, Alhaji Abdulaziz Usman, said the PDP is too strong to be intimidated by merger of some political parties to the extent that it has to engage in nocturnal moves to scuttle its registration.

In a statement issued in Lagos Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, ACN called on all lovers of democracy within and outside Nigeria to join in the efforts to ensure that the nation's

democracy is not truncated.

ACN said PDP, realising that its time is up, has now resorted to a dangerous game aimed at either keeping the party in power at all costs or crashing the country's democracy. This is a dangerous game that must be stopped, with the good people of Nigeria, not just the progressives, leading the charge,'' it said.

ACN described the events of the past few weeks, during which, according to the party, some elements made efforts to scuttle the registration of the All

Progressives' Congress (APC), as a throwback to 1993, "when the then military junta supported the so-called Association for Better Nigeria (ABN) to scuttle that year's presidential elections."

The party recalled that "the dirty game started by the ABN snowballed into a series of cataclysmic events that culminated in the annulment of what is still widely regarded as the best elections in the country,

as well as the ascension into office of a man regarded as the most brutal dictator in the country's history.

ACN assures that no amount of underhand tactics will stop the merger of the progressives, "who are even stronger now as they have received an overwhelming support and encouragement of Nigerians in the wake of the registration gate."

The PDP senator spoke against the backdrop of INEC's confirmation of receipt of an application from a political association, African People's Congress (APC) for registration as a political party to contest the 2015 general elections. The All Progressives Congress is yet to apply to the electoral umpire for registration.

Usman said: "PDP is strong enough to withstand any form of aggression from whatever political party and can not be fingered to be instrumental to whatever confusion they are having at the moment.

"The PDP is not afraid of the merger. Those fingering the party to being the mastermind of the confusion rocking the yet to be registered APC are themselves not sincere."



The Guardian

[Folami David]

Its all the beef that is existing between them before, nothing else. They have to do away with whatever they have against themeselves