The All Progressives Congress (APC) has denied the allegation by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP that the Director-General of the Department of State Security, DSS, Lawal Daura, is a card-carrying member of the party (APC), calling the accusation absurd and frivolous.
In a statement issued in Lagos on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, the party challenged the PDP to publish any evidence it may have to confirm the allegation, adding that “After all, it is trite that he who alleges must prove.”
“In the absence of that, the PDP must call another press conference to publicly apologize to all Nigerians for engaging in barefaced lies,” it said.
APC expressed shock that the PDP has started exhibiting all the symptoms of hallucination so soon after its gravy train derailed, saying it’s obvious that the party has now started hearing voices.
“We know that the psyche of the PDP has been badly affected by its loss of power at the centre. Even the party itself has admitted that much.
“That situation has now been compounded by the fact that the
party is broke. It is therefore not a surprise that it is no longer able to think straight. The reality of its new situation is just beginning to dawn on it.
“But we warned the PDP early on that being in opposition is not a walk in the park. We warned that while the party was used to eating its bread with butter on both sides, it will now be lucky to even have
bread to eat,” the party said.
It warned the PDP to spend more time in patching its tattered and battered umbrella than acting as a cog in the wheel of progress of the new Administration.
The national leadership of PDP had on Wednesday alleged that Daura, is a member of the governing party, the All Progressives Congress.
The party’s acting National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, at a press briefing in Abuja alleged that Daura was the chairman of the Intelligence Committee of the APC Presidential Campaign Council.
He said the party decided to address the press conference with the aim of bringing to the notice of Nigerians and the international community, happenings in the country.
Secondus said, “The NWC notes that this unfortunate development has been the case since the appointment of the new Director General of the DSS, Alhaji Lawal Daura, whom we learnt was a critical intelligence stakeholder of the APC as a card-carrying member of that party during the campaigns. This is ungodly and unacceptable. The President should review his appointment.
“We do hope that in his new job, the Director General of DSS is not mixing issues on the APC presidential candidate and the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, hence the need for Mr. President to rein him in, as the development is capable of eroding the cherished independence of the judiciary and the electoral commission, a sine qua non for a virile democracy, which guarantees our unity and stability as a nation.”
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