The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as “baseless and laughable”, allegations by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that Senator Ali Modu Sheriff was contracted by the governing party and the Presidency to destroy the PDP.
The APC, which said it would not join issues with PDP, noted that the main opposition party was suffering from its sins of the past.
Recall that the spokesperson of the Ahmed Makarfi-led Caretaker Committee of the PDP, Dayo Adeyeye, had on Tuesday accused the APC and the Presidency of being behind the Sheriff faction, which took over the Wadata Plaza National Secretariat of the party on Monday.
According to the caretaker committee, the agenda of the APC and the Presidency was to ensure that the PDP is in perpetual crisis and unable to produce credible candidates for the forthcoming elections in Edo and Ondo states.
Reacting to the claim, the APC National Secretary, Mai Mala Buni, in a statement last night, said “For the umpteenth time, the APC wishes to state that instead of joining issues with the baseless and laughable allegations, the APC would rather join issues that will bring about all-inclusive development in the country”.
“However, it should be put on record that the PDP forced on them whatever crisis it is troubled with today due to its politics of imposition and other undemocratic practices which the APC abhors.
“The PDP should put its house in order rather than playing to the gallery and blaming others but themselves for their sins which has come to hunt (sic) them. Also, it is evident that the PDP has chosen to employ diversionary tactics because of its inability to produce credible candidates for the forthcoming elections in Edo and Ondo states”, Buni said.
