The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the Peoples Democratic Party’s reference to APC’s Road Map as a product of ‘Janjaweed ideology’ was a thinly-veiled religious blackmail.
He said this was in furtherance of its (PDP’s) ongoing campaign to pigeon-hole the APC as an Islamic party, rather than engage in an informed critique of the Road Map.
APC’s Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said in a statement in Lagos yesterday, that on a more dangerous level, it showed that the PDP would not relent from engaging in Islam phobia by using the Boko Haram crisis in a part of the country to stereotype Muslims.
He said it was an attempt by the PDP to paint them as terrorists, “even when it is obvious that majority of Muslims do not support the heinous crimes being perpetrated by the sect”.
The party wondered why the PDP, in reacting to the APC’s Road Map, would be making an allusion to the “despicable Janjaweed militia which is wreaking havoc in Sudan’s Western Darfur region”, saying this was nothing short of religious escapism and a dangerous attempt to whip up religious sentiments against people of a certain faith.
