The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the call for foreign invasion of Nigeria by the new factional Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Tanimu Turaki over insecurity in parts of the country.
Mr Felix Morka, the APC National Publicity Secretary condemned the call in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.
Morka urged the international community to dismiss the call by Turaki.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Turaki while addressing newsmen over the crisis rocking the PDP, called on foreign powers to intervene in Nigeria to save it from alleged “Christian genocide”.
He also said the call had become necessary to protect the country’s democracy.
“Turaki’s call for foreign invasion of Nigeria was reckless and unpatriotic and should not be taken seriously.
“For a man declared national chairman barely 72 hours ago by a faction of his deeply fractured party, Turaki looked and sounded desperate, at his wit’s end,”he said.
The APC spokesman described Turaki as confused.
He said Nigerians expected that Turaki would set himself on an urgent peace-building mission to bring his party’s warring factions together in dialogue, towards finding possible pathways to peace and reconciliation.
He noted that instead, Turaki’s first official act as PDP’s factional chairman was to call for foreign invasion of Nigeria as a solution to the self-inflicted internal crisis of his PDP.
Morka said his call was a dangerous threat to national security and sovereignty, adding that it was a disgraceful and unpatriotic call.
He recalled that under the PDP’s 16 years in power, with its subversion of opposition parties, there was never a call for foreign invasion of Nigeria as a solution to crisis within opposition parties of that era.
“Turaki’s call is not only an admission of PDP’s incapacity to manage its internal contradictions, it must be taken as a final certification of its demise.
“We trust the international community to dismiss the PDP’s disgraceful and unpatriotic call as a pitiful distraction from the failure of its internal democracy and embarrassing disintegration.
“The heightened desperation of the PDP and other opposition leaders is now clear for all to see. Turaki’s call shows how far they are willing to go.
“Even to the extent of actively seeking destructive intervention of foreign powers on Nigerian soil in order to serve their sinister political agenda,” Morka said.
He urged Nigerians to stand firm in support of the APC, and the visionary leadership of President Bola Tinubu as he continued the task of building progress and prosperity in all areas of our national life.
