The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday denied any involvement in the assassination attempt on deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu while describing the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s allegation of the party being behind the attempt as an induced hallucination.
Reacting to the allegation, however, acting national publicity secretary of the APC, Comrade Timi Frank, said it was unfortunate that the PDP has resorted to cheap blackmail and was yet to purge itself of cheap and manipulative strategies that only helped “escort it to the doldrums that it is in today”.
Comrade Frank in a statement made available to newsman in Abuja, yesterday, said it was bemusing and canny of the PDP to adopt such cheap and strange propaganda in its attempt to taint the change mantra the APC has sworn to betroth to the nation.
The APC chided the opposition party for adopting its past known strategy for cheap political gains knowing fully well that the APC unlike the PDP, is known for adherence to the rule of law and respect for the sanctity of life, noting that the past 16 years of the PDP’s ruler ship, saw a honorable minister, Chief Bola Ige, politicians like Harry Marshall and Funso Williams assassinated with no attempt to unravel the mysteries that surrounded their deaths.
“It would therefore, be unfortunate for the PDP to elevate this strategic act it had perfected over the years to a political art or a propaganda tool,’’ the statement said.
The PDP through its spokesman, Chief Olisa Metuh had alleged of a plot to exterminate Ekweremadu and other opposition leaders by the APC.
Metuh told newsmen on Wednesday that the lives of key opposition members were endangered.
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