The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the aggression by the All Progressives Congress (APC) on the judiciary was a call for anarchy.
It decried the “plan of the opposition to scuttle democracy,” adding that the ceaseless torrents of attacks and denigration of the executive arm of government by the APC as well as the legislative was aimed at causing confusion in the National Assembly.
The PDP stated these in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, adding that the “on-going orchestrated onslaught on the judiciary and its officers by the opposition party is an integral part of the larger APC ideology which borders, essentially, on the negation and destruction of constitutional and democratic institutions in its quest for an order whose promise is doom for the nation.”
The statement said: “Why is weird anarchism an option for the APC? Consistently, this party has attacked and denigrated the executive and Nigerians excused it on the desperation of a political party that claims an alternative. It then took on the legislature where its crisis recipe in gerrymandering has yielded no result. Now, the APC is on a renewed aggression on the judiciary. Why is nihilism the APC preferred option?”
The party further said it was unfortunate the APC was waging such a battle whose tragic consequences on the institutions of democracy were well known, while at the same time jamming the political space with its pretensions on democracy.
The PDP added that the rush by the party to castigate the ruling of the Federal High Court presided over by Justice Adeniyi Ademola on the defection of some PDP members in the House of Representatives to the APC as well as its scathing criticism of the National Judicial Council over the suspension of the Chief Judge of Rivers state, clearly gave away the simmering impatience of the APC with the democratic order.
