PDP accuses APC of resort to guerilla journalism
(Nigeria) The Democratic Party, PDP Presidential Campaign
Organisation, PDPPCO, has warned the leaders and elders of the All Progressives
Congress, APC, leaders to stop insulting Yoruba Obas.
It also accused the APC of resorting to “guerilla
journalism” through the establishment and operation of illegal Radio Chanji at
a secret location outside the country.
Director of Media and Publicity of the PDPPCO, Chief Femi
Fani-Kayode, in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, said “There are three areas
which we wish to touch on today and which give us cause for concern. The first
is our concern about the intentions of the APC to use the radio station known
as Radio Change (Radio Chanji in Hausa) to create crises in this country after
the election results have been announced.
“The opposition has insisted on continuing in what we call
''guerrilla journalism'' by making all kinds of pronouncements and all kinds of
false statements from that radio station. The radio station is outside the
shores of Nigeria and we believe that we have identified the country from where
it has been broadcasting. We will not however disclose which country that is
for now. The radio station is operating on medium wave which is completely
illegal.
“Once again we must let the Nigerian people know that what
the APC intends to do is to incite the Nigerian public to violence after they
lose the election. They also intend to use the station to announce false
results all over the country, particularly targeting northern Nigeria. It is
important that we alert the public about this sinister agenda. We urge the Nigerian people not to allow
themselves to be used for violence and to ignore every fake result that will be
pronounced by this illegal radio station on March 28 and 29.
“The second issue that we wish to bring to the attention of
the Nigeria public, which gives us even more cause for concern, are the
consistent verbal attacks by the APC and their leaders on our traditional
rulers and institutions and especially the deep and damaging insults that have
been meted out to the traditional rulers and revered elders in the
south-western part of our country. Our message to the APC leadership is to
leave our Obas alone and our warning to them is that if they refuse to do so
they will regret it deeply at the polls.
“It all started when they referred to our traditional rulers
in the south-west as ‘worshipers of mammon’, meaning that they are cheap and
vulgar and that they worship money. The second one was when Asiwaju Bola
Tinubu, the de facto leader of APC, referred to all the Yoruba Obas as not
being decent people with the exception of only three. That means that as far as
he is concerned 97 percent of our Obas in Yorubaland are useless and irresponsible
people.
“The latest insult that they indulged in was when they
labelled our reverred traditional rulers as ''bribe takers''. They suggested
that our candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan, was giving them bribes and
that they were gladly receiving those bribes. The APC continues to insult our
traditional rulers and our Obas in the south-west and this, as far as we are
concerned, is unacceptable.
“We are not surprised by the pronouncements of people like
Tinubu and the APC about our traditional rulers because we know their
antecedents. It is clear to us that it is only when someone has a thousand
fathers, or when that person does not know who his real father is, that he is
ready to insult our traditional rulers in this way.
“The third area of concern is as follows. Unfortunately the
APC leadership has consistently indulged in all manner of occultism. They are
essentially a party of cultists. They have used occultism in enslaving the
Nigerian people over the last few months. They slaughter cows, goats, ducks and
other living things as sacrifices to the devil and they bathe with soap that is
made out of human faeces. They consult the stars and they discuss serious
national issues with mediums and sorcerers. That is their stock in trade. They
sought to put the whole of Nigerian under a spell of fear for the February 14
elections. They invoked all kinds of fetish powers and demonic entities to
effect this.
“We are grateful that with the power of the living God
Nigeria was delivered from that spell. On February 14, when the D-Day came,
that spell was broken and it was all over. After that date the effect of the
spell has gone. Since that time Nigerians have become more and more liberated
from the evil covenant that they sowed for that day and they have been
resisting their evil.
“We give thanks to God for this. We are of the view that
these people who insult our traditional rulers, who devalue our sacred
institutions, who have no respect for the Living God and the God that we serve,
who do not abide by His principles and who seek power from the devil and those
who work for the devil should never be allowed to take power in Nigeria. We
want to assure the Nigerian people that God will not allow them to have power
in this country.”
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