Peoples Democratic Party spokesman, Chief Olisa Metuh has stated that the opposition party, All Progressives Congress is fond of “insults, vituperations, lies and unending schemes” against the President Goodluck Jonathan administration.
Metuh said ordinarily elder statemen ought to know better and ascribed their fondness for disparaging the President to frustration, bitterness and envy.
Metuh in a statement said their actions were part of “a well laid-out plot to cause confusion and ultimately truncate the nation’s democracy.”
Metuh said, “In continuously hauling insults against a democratically elected President upon whose shoulders lies the sacred mandate freely given by the Nigerian people, the APC is directly insulting Nigerians and showing their disdain for the institution of democracy.
“The National Chairman and the National Working Committee of the PDP find it very disturbing that the APC leadership, made up of elderly persons who ordinary should have a sense of self respect and decorum, could condescend so low and resort to the use of uncouth language against the office and person of the President out of sheer frustration, bitterness and envy.
“They have continued to show themselves as extremely unpatriotic elements, blinded by narrow pursuit of power for very ignoble reasons for which they have contracted foreigners to undermine the government of their own nation using negative paid write-ups and advertorials to dish out lies and vituperations against the Federal Government.”
The PDP spokesman added, “Theirs is clearly a question of the evil drummer who drums under the cover of the bush only to jump unto the footpath and mount enquiry regarding where the drumbeats came from.
“Let it be known to the APC that power belongs only to God and that those who denigrate and disrespect authority at any level will never be entrusted with it. In constantly insulting the President, the APC has shown that they will remain in opposition as no Nigerian will entrust ill-mannered and disrespectful persons with the leadership of our great country.
“The APC must realise that they have started irritating Nigerians. As a ruling party, we charge them to show maturity and shed their penchant for lies, deceit and unnecessary attacks on well meaning individual, government officials and institutions.”