The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Thursday called on Nigerians to use the occasion of the June 12 Democracy Day to re-awaken and strengthen their resistance to the anti-democratic designs of the All Progressives Congress (APC), particularly the plot to foist a despotic one-party regime on Nigeria.
The main opposition party appeal was contained in a statement made available to Blueprint in Abuja by its National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba.
PDP further urged Nigerians, institutions of democracy, organised civil society, development partners and all lovers of democracy to unite in speaking out against the stifling of democratic tenets of justice, the rule of law, free, fair, peaceful credible electoral process and the right of citizens, particularly to freely participate in politics and governance in Nigeria.
The statement read in part: “The PDP is alarmed by the anti-democratic actions of the APC government which continues to use compromised state apparatus of powers and control to brazenly violate the Constitution, emasculate opposition, defy and abridge the liberty of the citizens to freely elect their leaders.
“The brazen resort to State Capture as exemplified in the subversion of the Will of the people in the 2024 Edo State Governorship election, the widely condemned overthrow of a democratically elected government and imposition of a Sole Administrator in Rivers State in blatant violation of the clear provisions of the 1999 Constitution among other Constitutional infractions signpost a clear and present danger to our democracy.
“June 12 Democracy Day, therefore, embodies the struggle by Nigerians against an oppressive, despotic and lawless system driven by impunity, high level deception, and reckless anti-people tendencies as being witnessed under the APC administration.
“It also represents the insistence by Nigerians for a system that is accountable to the people, operates on the rule of law and democratic principles of freedom, justice, fairness, equity, credible elections, national cohesion, transparency and accountability in government which Chief MKO Abiola personified and died for”.