The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that it is not afraid about the prospects of the opposition All Progressive Congress (APC) probing President Goodluck Jonathan and previous PDP leaders.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that it is not afraid about the prospects of the opposition All Progressive Congress (APC) probing President Goodluck Jonathan and previous PDP leaders.
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The claim is contained in a statement today by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, in which he described the manifesto of the APC as "as a very poor imitation, a bland parody” of the manifesto of his own party.
Metuh said it was laughable that the opposition thinks that victory will now cheaply be offered the opposition by chance and perhaps, media bombast, describing the leaders of the APC as entertaining themselves.
"The opposition are in their dream world. They are in deep in slumber but will soon wake up to the stark reality that it takes more than noise-making to defeat the PDP, the only truly national political party in Nigeria, with impregnable structures in every polling booth, every ward, local government and every state of the federation. They will wake up on the eve of 2015 and see us once again in power."
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According to Metuh, “those who recited the parable of the bloody baboon and monkey and other fellows who pledged the impossible in desperation, may engage demagoguery to throw the state into chaos.”
Curiously, Metuh claimed that the PDP, which is popularly held responsible for the menace of corruption in Nigeria, has “not only laid the foundation of a solid institutional framework for the war on corruption but has over the years demonstrated its zero tolerance for the plague.”
Asserting that the PDP was not afraid of the probe of the activities of its leaders since 1999, Metuh challenged the opposition to prove itself by taming the regime of corruption in the few states it controls as a demonstration of its fidelity to the anti-corruption cause.
“The PDP is not afraid of probe,” Metuh bragged. “This is one of the major reasons our government established the Freedom Of Information Act so that every Nigerian can be a watch dog, well-armed with facts to challenge impunity.
"But right under the nose of the leaders of the opposition are taxpayers money, state property defiled and pillage to satisfy the greed of one man- the self styled leader, the Pontifix Maximus. We urge the opposition to start the probe there as an earnest of its commitment."
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