The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the call by Tanimu Turaki, the new factional chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to US President Donald Trump to save democracy in Nigeria.
Turaki spoke on Monday after gaining access to the PDP secretariat in Abuja, following a prolonged standoff.
The ex-minister said Nigeria’s brand of democracy desperately needs help from abroad.
“I want to call on President Trump; what is at stake is not just genocide against Nigerian Christians,” Turaki said.
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“He should come and save democracy in Nigeria. Democracy is under threat. I’m calling on all other developed nations: come and save Nigeria, come and save democracy.”
However, in a statement, Felix Morka, APC national publicity secretary, described the call by Turaki as “reckless and unpatriotic”.
“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,” the statement reads.
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Morka said Nigerians expected Turaki to focus on peacebuilding and dialogue among warring factions of his party rather than calling for foreign intervention.
“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. That is as shameless as it is a dangerous threat to national security and sovereignty,” he said.
The APC spokesperson argued that during the PDP’s 16 years in power, no leader had sought foreign intervention to resolve internal disputes.
“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,” he added.
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He said APC urged the international community to dismiss the PDP’s call as a distraction from the opposition party’s failure to manage its internal democracy.
Morka highlighted the desperation of the PDP and other opposition leaders, who he claimed are willing to invite foreign interference to serve a “sinister political agenda”.
He called on Nigerians to continue supporting the APC and President Bola Tinubu’s leadership in building national progress and prosperity.
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