By Muhammed Abubakar, Reporting
THE national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the distruption of the Kaduna rally of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as “wrong, but regrettably self-inflicted.”
National Publicity Secretary of the party, Felix Morka, said so in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
He exonerated the ruling party which was alleged to have instigated the violence that almost disrupted the PDP rally on Monday.
Morka claimed that the violent incident “was simply a matter of a rented crowd that went irate when the party’s rent-a-crowd managers disappeared with funds meant to pay for the rented crowd.”
He also accused the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, of lacking in tact for deciding to hold his rally the same day that the APC presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, was holding a session with Arewa Joint Committee.
“As Africa’s largest political party, bolstered by the remarkable accomplishments of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, with a vibrant future led by our visionary Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, we cannot, in any way, be unnerved by any political party or Presidential Candidate.
“Certainly, not by the PDP, a party in tatters and at war with itself.
“If anything, it was the PDP that scheduled and conducted its rally in Kaduna on the same day that our candidate was scheduled to make an appearance at the Arewa Dialogue before which the PDP candidate made an appearance the Saturday prior.
“A mature and well-governed campaign would have avoided that apparent conflict of having two major events take place in the same city on the same day.
“Having made their pitch at the dialogue, it was only fair that our candidate be allowed to do the same. But such civil gesture is uncharacteristic of the PDP,” he enthused.
Meanwhile, the APC has tasked “security agencies to probe the unfortunate Kaduna incident with a view to unmasking and prosecuting the culprits behind it.”
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