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ABUJA- PEOPLES Democratic Party, PDP Presidential Campaign
Organisation, PDPPCO yesterday asked the All Progressives Congress
(APC) to tell Nigerians whether or not its presidential candidate,
General Muhammadu Buhari was considering the request of some foreign
nations to scrap our anti-gay laws and allow same-sex marriage designed
to secure their support.
According to PDP, giving this information to Nigerians was more
important than issues that have been raised as a consequence of
Morocco’s withdrawal of their Ambassador from Nigeria.
In a statement yesterday by the Director, Media and Publicity of PDP
Presidential Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani- Kayode, the PDP
said, “Our attention has been drawn to the unpatriotic stance of the APC
on the issues that have been raised as a consequence of Morocco’s
withdrawal of their Ambassador from Nigeria.
“It is very unfortunate that rather than join hands with the Federal
Government and endeavor to stand shoulder to shoulder with their
compatriots and their country when it comes to the conduct of
international affairs, the APC are always ready to assume the worst
about their government and about their President.
“Our counsel to them is to grow up, get real and stop playing
politics with such sensitive matters that border on the interest and
credibility of our nation and our people. If they want a clarification
about the Moroccan affair, they ought to go through the appropriate
channels and perhaps attempt to reach our Foreign Minister in order to
find out what really happened.
“That is the proper and responsible thing to do. They do not need to
make a song and dance about the whole thing and they certainly should
not try to gain political mileage out of it or join forces with those
from outside our shores that do not wish Nigeria or the Nigerian people
well.
“We are fully aware of their obvious and pronounced intellectual
limitations when it comes to such matters; yet, regardless of that, they
must always endeavor to remember that we are, first and foremost,
Nigerians and regardless of whichever side of the political divide we
find ourselves or whichever political party we belong to, we must always
seek to protect our nation’s interest before anything else.
“For the APC to even begin to assume that it is true that our
President or any of our government officials lied in this episode with
the King of Morocco and for them to so readily accept the suggestion
that we have done anything wrong or that we have somehow misled our
people about what actually transpired speaks volumes.
“Our President is certainly not a liar. The only liars here are the
APC and their perfidious and conflicted spokesman, Lai Mohammed. Our
President and our government have done Nigeria proud when it comes to
the conduct of foreign affairs over the last few years and when it comes
to building bridges with other nations. This is particularly so when it
comes to our relationship with other African countries.
“Our military collaboration with the nations of Chad, Niger and the
Cameroons in the fight against Boko Haram and the great successes that
we are jointly recording in that bitter fight is a glaring testimony to
that.
“Any Nigerian or any Nigerian political party that joins hands with
foreigners to denigrate our nation, to belittle our foreign policy, to
undermine our credibility in the comity of nations or to work against
our country’s vital core interests by assuming the worst about the
conduct of our foreign affairs is simply a traitor and is not worthy of
being called a Nigerian.
“Once again, the APC has shown, by their plea for a clarification on
this matter, that they are a party that simply cannot possibly
comprehend or grasp the complexities of national leadership or the
conduct of foreign affairs.
“They have proved that they will always put their own personal and
narrow party interests before the interests of our people and our
nation. The basic lesson that they need to learn is this: in a time of
war, you do not join hands with foreign governments or foreign kings to
undermine the interest of your nation or to denigrate your President.
“Instead of talking about the King of Morocco and who spoke to who,
the APC should tell us whether it is true that their presidential
candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, in response to a request from some
western countries, is considering scrapping the anti-gay laws in our
country and pushing through legislation that would allow same sex
marriage.
“We are far more interested in that than in the King of Morocco
because if it is true that that is what they are planning, it would be a
reflection of their moral depravity as a party and it would be a
negation of our values as a God-fearing nation.”
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