APC condemns Turaki’s call for Trump’s intervention in Nigerian politics

The All Progressives Congress on Tuesday berated the factional National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Tanimu Turaki, over what it described as a reckless and unpatriotic call for foreign intervention in Nigeria’s internal political crisis.

Turaki had earlier appealed to United States President Donald Trump to “save democracy in Nigeria” following a violent leadership tussle tearing apart the opposition party.

In a statement issued in Abuja, the APC National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, said Turaki’s public plea amounted to “a call for foreign invasion of Nigeria,” warning that such rhetoric poses a dangerous threat to the country’s sovereignty.

“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 wits’ end, confused, incoherent, and grossly lacking in stamina and capacity to manage his party’s crisis,” the ruling party said.

The APC insisted that Nigerians expected Turaki to “set himself on an urgent peace-building mission” to unite the PDP’s warring factions, rather than invite foreign powers into Nigeria’s affairs.

“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,” the statement added.

The condemnation came hours after Turaki publicly appealed to Trump and other “advanced democracies” to intervene following Tuesday’s chaotic showdown at the PDP national secretariat, where the faction loyal to Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, clashed with the faction backed by Governors Bala Mohammed, Seyi Makinde, Ahmadu Fintiri and Caleb Muftwang.

Addressing journalists after the confrontation, Turaki said, “I want to call on President Trump. What is at stake is not just a genocide against Nigerian Christians.

“He should come and save democracy in Nigeria. Democracy is under threat. I am calling on all other developed nations, all advanced democracies. Come and save Nigeria, come and save democracy.”

He also accused Wike—expelled from the PDP on Saturday—of storming the secretariat with loyalists and security personnel to disrupt the party’s planned National Executive Committee meetings.

The APC said Turaki’s appeal to foreign powers “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.”

“We trust the international community to dismiss the PDP’s disgraceful and unpatriotic call as a pitiful distraction from the failure of its internal democracy and embarrassing disintegration,” the party added, urging Nigerians to continue supporting the leadership of President Bola Tinubu.(Punch)