APC is a party of shameless, desperate liars – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), as a party of shameless and desperate liars.

The party berated the APC for sticking to its lies and empty denials despite overwhelming evidences that the new Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Alhaji Lawal Daura is an APC member.


PDP National Publicity Secretary Chief Olisa Metuh in a statement on Saturday said the spate of lies chunked out by the APC and its spokesperson, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in the desperation to suppress the truth is not only reprehensible but also symptomatic of lack of character.

"When the matter first came up, the APC spokesman hurriedly went on air on RayPower radio wherein he stated categorically to the nation that he never knew or met "the man", and that "the man" has never had any contact or dealing whatsoever with the APC as a party before his appointment as DSS Director General.

"When we came up with the newspaper advertorial sponsored by the APC wherein it announced Alhaji Daura as a member of its campaign Intelligence Committee, a very important position vested on him by virtue of his membership of the party, as well as pictures of him with other members of the committee, Lai Mohammed started singing a new tone, insulted PDP leaders as hallucinating out of poverty and asked PDP to produce Daura's membership card and evidence of registration.

 "We ask, is APC demanding that the PDP invade Daura's house to get his personal card? Or that we should go to Daura to get the APC ward register?  How on earth does the APC spokesperson want us to go and ask a man in charge of arresting and detaining people who hold views contrary to those of his party and government to give us his party membership card? How on earth can the PDP request and get the APC membership register in Daura's ward? Who do Lai Mohammed and the APC think they are fooling?  Nigerians?" the PDP queried.
The PDP noted that in his lame effort to defend his party, the APC spokesman either intentionally lied or exhibited crass ignorance by trying to equate the DSS with the National Orientation Agency (NOA), the Police Service Commission (PCC), or the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) where a Democrat, Mr. Leon Panetta was named by President Obama as head.
"Perhaps Mr. Lai Mohammed needs to constantly update and crosscheck his facts. We wish to inform him and the APC that there is a great difference between the CIA and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after which the Nigerian DSS was fashioned.

"Whereas the US FBI and the Nigerian DSS are vested with the statutory tasks of providing domestic intelligence, security service and criminal investigations among others for the state and can be equated with the British M15 and Russian FSB, all of which have their headships insulated from politics, the CIA on the other hand is vested with collecting of intelligence overseas, the same role as Nigeria's National Intelligence Agency (NIA).

"Furthermore, the NOA and PCC are agencies that have no powers to investigate, arrest or detain, neither can they be used to harass, hound or intimidate. Also, we wish to remind Lai Mohammed that Mr. Mike Omeri, in writing, declined the appointment into the PDP campaign committee because of his position as Director General of the NOA. We note therefore that in drawing his comparisons, Mr. Mohammed either exhibited high level ignorance or acted ostensibly to deceive Nigerians yet again.
"Severally in the past, we have exposed Lai Mohammed in terms of lies but instead of retracing his steps, he keeps on moving from one 'lai' to the other. Only in May this year, Lai Mohammed nearly derailed the transition programme when he issued a false statement alleging that the APC team was being frustrated, just for the head of the APC's Transition Committee, Alhaji Ahmed Joda to announce that there was nothing of such.

"Nigerians have not forgotten how Lai Mohammed had in June 2014 issued a statement wherein he alleged that a plane carrying Kano state Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso to attend an APC rally in Ekiti was denied landing permission in Akure, only for Kwankwaso's Director of Press Affairs, Baba Dantiye to announce that his boss was at another event in Kano and had no plans to travel to Ekiti state.

"The APC spokesman should know that being a spokesperson of a political party does not mean he should be dishing out lies. He should shed his unnecessary arrogance and understand that the APC did not win the Presidential election on account of his lies and deceit. In fact, this constant falsehood has become a huge embarrassment and source of worry for responsible and respectable persons in the APC.

"Quite often, he boasts of arranging a course for the opposition. We ask, is he arranging a course in lies? For the umpteenth time, let us inform him and the APC that the PDP does not need their course on the spreading of hatred and strife with lies, propaganda and deceit. Our form of opposition is focused only on constructive criticisms while presenting credible alternatives to the policies and programmes of the present administration.

"Our worry however is that the APC spokesperson has so negatively influenced some hundreds of young people who now engage in abuses as a model for effective communication and this is not healthy for the polity. We urge Nigerians to purge themselves of this poisonous mode of communication so that we can have credible and decorous political discourse in this country" the party said.

The PDP insisted that in appointing its member to head the DSS, a very sensitive security agency vested with numerous powers, the APC has annexed the Service as a tool to suppress the opposition and other Nigerians who hold views contrary to that of government, thus preparing the ground for dictatorship and a reign of terror on the people.

"No wonder we are now witnessing invasions of houses of PDP members as well as harassments, arrests and detentions of electoral officers and tribunal members in Akwa-Ibom, Rivers and other PDP state where the APC is desperate to upturn our electoral victory at all cost and by any means", it stated.

The party however restated that no amount of harassment and threats or conniving with people, whether disgruntled PDP members or staff, can intimidate, blackmail or distract the PDP from discharging its duty to Nigerians, of providing constructive and credible opposition to the policies and programmes of the present administration.

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  1. The first comprehensive reprimand I have read from PDP! The Lai lies can be nauseating sometimes. APC wants to be both ruling party and Opposition party. But PDP equally needs a radical reinvention.

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  2. Whether Lawal Daura holds APC card or not I don't care. We are in desperate times in Nigeria; we need anyone who will champion the stance of this new administration of PMB to curb and curtail corruption and maladministration in both public and private offices. PDP ( politically Displaced People) you had your chance and you goofed wickedly... so just shurrrp!!!

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    1. Is the SSS an anti corruption Institution..so what are u saying, Aboki?

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    2. umpire or vampire, SSS are secret police the aid anti graft agencies to unravel and make arrest fir prosecution. Any EFFCC arrest is facilitated by DSS.

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    3. Oga turakin,pls ur argument is baseless...let us tell ourselves d truth,a sensitive post like d one daura occupies should not be occupied by a card carrying member of any political party...dat is just d truth,so saying u dnt care is very wrong and insensitive....we want a situation where everybody,irrespective of political affiliation is free to speak his or her mind without fear of been harrassed,dat is my humble submission...

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    4. Oh like the DSS hasn't always been politicised. Weren't we all here when Marilyn Ogar was dishing out all sorts of unsubstantiated allegations against the APC. Or the Gestapo like invasion of APC offices under. I don't care if the man is an APC stalwart as long as he can get the job done properly. This country sef! It's either we complain abt the ethnicity or religion and now political affiliations. Na wah o

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    5. Your comment makes no sense.....i thought dere slogan is change....smh

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  3. Metuh! What goes around, comes around. You just started. You go hear wen!

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  4. Metuh! What goes around comes around. You just started. You go hear wen!

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  5. When will Olisa metuh stop stooling from his mouth ?

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  6. Well articulated and well dished. Olisa I don't like PDP but you're well lettered,versed and knowledgeable going by your response. Like Lai, his lies are many..no pun intended. Lai Mohammed is a specialist in lying or will I say APC are gurus in propaganda. I'd advice you leave Lai to his lies.

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    1. Na wa for u o, inside PDP and APC who lie pass. Even GEJ na confirm man with lack of truth and integrity. What are we now saying... Metuh should go and take chill pill...

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    2. Metuh is not d issue here...please address d issue raised constructively....dats wat I expect u to do....

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  7. LAI IS A LIAR!!!!

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  8. Nothing good is built on lies, time shall tell.

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  9. If APC is a liar, what is PDP? Metuuuu go and clear your defecation at your Wadata plaza before all these your craps. Nigerians are looking to see a very credible opposing party not PDpigs.Imagine! Kettle calling pot black. The highest corrupt criminal and incredible opposition party in Africa. Idris to buy a defunct pdp Kogi guber ticket for 1billion. Na wa o.

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  10. Lie Mohamadu is a shameless Liar,infact he drinks lies like water...At times i wonder how his children sees him with this kind of heavy lies that comes out his mouth every minutes and seconds of the day...I have never seen an old man that lies like Lia Mohamadu since my existence in this world...The man is a total disgrace to his family and Nigeria at large.

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  11. Any reasonable grand child or great grand child should be ashamed of him by now.How can an old man close 85 years lie this much. This man called Lai Mohammed is making himself a laughing stock before children. This is why I concur with Olisa Metuh.The man requires psychiatric examination cosi it only a man that has some missing nuts u there that can lie the way he does.It is shameful and unfortunate. This is his legacy for future generations.It is sad.May God help our future generations.

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