The All Progressives Congress Local Government Chairmen (APC-LGC) has raised the alarm over alleged “impending plot by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to overthrow President Muhammadu Buhari with the aid of the National Assembly.”
The grassroots APC chairmen made this revelation at a press conference Thursday in Abuja, where it strongly accused the PDP of manipulating the NASS to remove the current administration from office.
Speaking for the group, the national coordinator, Adadu Alegwu, said the opposition had resorted to the legislative arm having failed to legitimately oust President Buhari in the judiciary.
The forum, therefore, said it considered the grand plot as a coup against democracy, and as such discerning members of the general public were placed on notice of the manifestation of the destabilisation plot by the PDP.
“The National Forum of APC Local Government Chairmen, the umbrella forum of all APC local government chairmen in Nigeria, is holding the press conference as a matter of national interest to intimate members of the general public of the clandestine plot by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to remove President Muhammadu Buhari from office through the National Assembly.
“According to credible information reaching the National Forum of APC Local Government Chairmen has indeed revealed that the opposition PDP is the brain behind the recent upsurge of criminal activities across the country manifest in Boko Haram/ISWAP, banditry and kidnappings.
“We wish to state that the plot in the National Assembly was orchestrated by a top-ranking member of the PDP in the National Assembly who have been mandated by the leadership of the PDP to see to the realisation of this grand plot against democracy in Nigeria.”
“This grand plot against democracy in Nigeria has as a component a puerile campaign against the service chiefs because of their loyalty to the country and the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, and also their refusal to surrender the country to them during the 2019 general elections.
“We also have it on competent authority that the character and efforts of the service chiefs would be subjected to an inglorious slander campaign to compromise their loyalty to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“We also wish to state that Nigeria is a democratic country that is governed by laws, and any attempt by unscrupulous political elements that have refused to respect the wishes of the people would be resisted through the instrument of the law.”
