Festus Keyamo, the Chief Spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), mocked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over its proposed petition to the National Peace Committee.
WITHIN NIGERIA previously reported that the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation’s Director of Strategic Communications, Dele Momodu, had said the party would formally petition the committee over the attack on the convoy of the PDP Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in Maiduguri, Borno State.
Momodu told a press conference in Abuja on Thursday that the PDP planned to report to the peace committee because most of the presidential candidates had signed a peace accord.
He also stated that the PDP was preparing evidence to present to the committee and the Nigeria Police Force, claiming that the attacks endanger party members’ lives.
In an interview with The Punch on Thursday, Keyamo accused the opposition party of being befuddled, claiming that the PDP was responsible for the attack on Atiku’s convoy.
According to the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, the incident in Maiduguri was caused by PDP factions fighting among themselves.
Keyamo warned that no recognized law empowered the peace committee to penalize or disqualify any candidate or party.
He said;
You know the PDP is factionalised in all the states of the federation and at the national level. The show of shame we saw in Maiduguri was the PDP factions fighting themselves. I am sure the whole of Nigeria saw it too on Wednesday.
Now, they have G-5, G-1, G-3. Sometimes, we even wonder if the PDP spokesmen are speaking on behalf of the G-5 or G-1, or the candidate. We are not sure on whose behalf they speak again.
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