The All Progressives Congress (APC) has issued a strong condemnation of the call by Tanimu Turaki, the newly elected factional Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), urging foreign powers to intervene in Nigeria.
Turaki, while addressing journalists on the deepening crisis within his party, appealed to the international community to step in to avert what he described as a looming “Christian genocide” and to safeguard Nigeria’s democracy.
The APC in a statement by Felix Morka, the national Publicity Secretary, described Turaki’s remarks as “reckless and unpatriotic,” saying the PDP chieftain appeared desperate and overwhelmed barely 72 hours after being pronounced chairman by a faction of the embattled opposition party.
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According to the ruling party, Nigerians had expected Turaki to launch a peace initiative aimed at reconciling the PDP’s warring blocs.
Instead, his first public statement was a call for foreign intervention, an action the APC labelled both “shameless” and a “dangerous threat to national security and sovereignty.”
The APC noted that even during the PDP’s 16-year rule, despite alleged suppression of opposition voices, no party leader ever solicited foreign invasion over internal party disputes. Turaki’s comments, it said, amount to an admission of the PDP’s inability to manage its crisis and reflect the “final collapse” of its internal democracy.
Morka said, “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, confused, incoherent, and grossly lacking in stamina and capacity to manage his party’s crisis.
“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.
“Instead, 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.”
Morka further added, “That is as shameless as it is a dangerous threat to national security and sovereignty.
“Under the PDP’s 16 years in power, with its ruthless 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 the party’s incapacity to manage its internal contradictions, it must be taken as a final certification of the PDP’s demise.”
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The APC further called on Nigerians to remain steadfast in supporting the party and President Bola Tinubu’s administration as it continues efforts toward national development.
The ruling party urged the global community to dismiss what it called the PDP’s “disgraceful and unpatriotic” appeal, describing it as a diversion from the opposition’s internal failures.
He added, “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.”
