Ismaeel Aleem
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has issued a scathing press statement strongly denouncing a call by the newly installed factional Chairman of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Tanimu Turaki, for foreign powers to intervene militarily in Nigeria.
In a statement signed by the APC National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, the ruling party described Turaki’s remarks as “reckless and unpatriotic,” accusing him of actively seeking “destructive intervention of foreign powers on Nigerian soil” to advance a “sinister political agenda.”
The controversy erupted after Turaki, while addressing journalists on the deepening leadership crisis within the PDP, reportedly urged international forces to step in to “save the country from alleged Christian genocide” and to “protect democracy.”
The APC characterised the statement as the desperate act of a leader unable to resolve his party’s internal contradictions.
“Nigerians expected that Turaki would set himself on an urgent peace-building mission to bring his party’s warring factions together,” the statement read.
“Instead, Turaki’s first official act as factional chairman was his call for foreign invasion of Nigeria as a solution to the self-inflicted internal crisis of his PDP. That is as shameless as it is a dangerous threat to national security and sovereignty.”
The APC further noted that throughout the PDP’s 16 years in power, marked by what it called the “ruthless subversion” of opposition parties, no PDP leader ever contemplated inviting foreign troops to resolve domestic political disputes.
It labelled Turaki’s outburst “a final certification of the PDP’s demise.”
The ruling party urged Nigerians to rally behind the APC and the “visionary leadership” of President Bola Tinubu, while calling on the international community to treat Turaki’s plea with the contempt it deserves and dismiss it as a “pitiful distraction” from the opposition’s organisational failures.
