The All Progressives Congress on Tuesday berated the factional National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Tanimu Turaki, over what it described as a reckless and unpatriotic call for foreign intervention in Nigeria’s internal political crisis.
Turaki had earlier appealed to United States President Donald Trump to “save democracy in Nigeria” following a violent leadership tussle tearing apart the opposition party.
In a statement issued in Abuja, the APC National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, said Turaki’s public plea amounted to “a call for foreign invasion of Nigeria,” warning that such rhetoric poses a dangerous threat to the country’s sovereignty.
“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 wits’ end, confused, incoherent, and grossly lacking in stamina and capacity to manage his party’s crisis,” the ruling party said.
The APC insisted that Nigerians expected Turaki to “set himself on an urgent peace-building mission” to unite the PDP’s warring factions, rather than invite foreign powers into Nigeria’s affairs.
“Turaki’s first official act as factional chairman was his call for foreign invasion of Nigeria as a solution to the self-inflicted internal crisis of his PDP. That is as shameless as it is a dangerous threat to national security and sovereignty,” the statement added.
