The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday said the President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) have an ulterior motive for insisting on
The PDP said the insistence by the APC administration to draft Nigerian soldiers into Niger Republic in defiance to the disapproval by the National Assembly and Nigerians across board, validates apprehensions in the public domain of ulterior motives by the Tinubu-led APC to import crisis and destabilise the nation for political reasons.
PDP said while it frowns at unconstitutional change of government in any part of the world, the situation in Niger Republic does not warrant any external peace-keeping effort and does not constitute any threats whatsoever to Nigeria’s interest to justify committing its already overstretched military to harm’s way in a needless war.
The party added that the insistence of the APC government to go to war in Niger Republic is already heightening tension in Nigeria. A statement by the national publicity secretary of PDP, Hon Debo Ologunagba, said “There are insinuations in the public that the APC is only desperate to deploy Nigerian military to Niger Republic so as to provoke possible external aggression from that country, thereby orchestrating a situation for the declaration of a State of Emergency in Nigeria with the tendency to cripple the judicial process on the 2023 Presidential election and divert attention from the hardship the APC has foisted on...
“It is apparent that the APC is desperate to orchestrate a situation of “imminent danger of invasion or involvement in a state of war” so as to have the excuse to declare a State of Emergency under Section 305 and of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 .
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