PDP is the anti-development party, APC tells Maku

The All Progressives Congress has asked Minister of Information Labaran Maku to “look inwards” if he is searching for people who are anti-people and anti-development.


The party also believes that the minister to ask “his principal why he is finding it difficult to allow peace to reign in Rivers State.”

In a statement in Lagos on Thursday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party accused the minister of “engaging in an emotional outburst that is devoid of reason or logic” by describing as anti-national interest and anti-development the APC’s directive to its members in the National Assembly to withdraw cooperation with the executive until peace returns to Rivers State.

It urged Maku to realise that anytime “he points one finger at others, four other fingers point” at him.

The APC said, ”It is interesting that an information minister, who does not see anything wrong in the illegal use of the police to deny the people of a state, in the nation he is purportedly serving, their constitutionally-guaranteed rights of free association, free movement and free speech, has suddenly found his voice to rant at perceived enemies of Nigeria, when the real enemies are within the government he is serving.

”Where was Mr. Maku when a serving Senator was shot in Rivers simply for attending a rally? What happened to Mr. Maku’s voice when an elected Governor was being harassed by a Police Commissioner who is supposed to take orders from him, going by the Constitution? Why did Mr. Maku not raise an alarm when Rivers legislators were locked out of the State House of Assembly chambers? If Mr. Maku wants to know those who are seeking to truncate the nation’s democracy, he should inquire from the Presidency, which has been the pillar of support behind the anarchists in Rivers.”

The party insisted there was nothing anti-development about a party asking its federal lawmakers to withdraw legislative cooperation from the Federal Government which it accused of promoting and sponsoring anarchy in a state of the federation.
APC said, ”In case Mr. Maku has forgotten, it is his party, the PDP, that has used its majority in the House to frustrate the Petroleum Industry Bill that has now forced international oil companies to start divesting from Nigeria. Considering that oil remains the mainstay of our economy, who then is trying to endanger the nation’s survival? Which party can best be described as anti-development if not the PDP?”