Bayo Onanuga, special adviser on information and strategy to President Bola Tinubu, has criticised Kabiru Turaki, national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
On Tuesday, the new chairman of a faction of the PDP asked
US President Donald Trump to intervene in the party’s festering crisis.
BACKGROUND
Addressing the press after securing entry into the PDP
headquarters in Abuja, following a prolonged confrontation between supporters
of rival factions, Turaki appealed for help from abroad.
He asked Trump and the international community to save
Nigeria’s democracy from collapse.
“I want to call on President Trump; what is at stake is not
just genocide against Nigerian Christians,” Turaki had said.
“He should come and save democracy in Nigeria. Democracy is
under threat. I’m calling on all other developed nations: come and save
Nigeria, come and save democracy.”
‘HIGH TREASON’
Onanuga said Turaki’s appeal will never be forgotten.
“We shall never forget this video: the day a Nigerian
politician committed high treason for calling for a foreign invasion of
Nigeria, all because of an intra-party dispute,” the president’s aide wrote.
Two weeks ago, Trump threatened military action in Nigeria
if the federal “government continues to allow the killing of Christians”.
The US leader had promised to go into Nigeria
“guns-a-blazing, to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are
committing these horrible atrocities”.
MAYHEM AT PDP HEADQUARTERS
Chaotic scenes played out at the PDP headquarters on Tuesday
as police fired teargas to break up clashes between supporters from opposing
camps.
The Nyesom Wike-aligned bloc and the newly elected national
working committee (NWC) led by Turaki had scheduled separate meetings at Wadata
Plaza for the same day.
Turaki accused Wike, minister of the Federal Capital
Territory (FCT), of deploying thugs armed with cudgels who gathered at the gate
and sang protest songs.
He also claimed that police officers protected persons
responsible for the disorder.
Samuel Anyanwu, national secretary of the Wike faction,
arrived with his group for their planned board of trustees (BoT) and national
executive committee (NEC) meetings.
Police struggled to control an increasingly rowdy crowd
before eventually ordering everyone out of the premises.
Officers later fired teargas as supporters from both camps
traded blows outside the building.
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