The newly elected National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ini Ememobong,
has defended the PDP chairman, Kabiru Turaki’s controversial call for United States President, Donald Trump to intervene in Nigeria’s political situation, arguing that international actors had historically shaped the nation’s democratic path.
Ememobong also condemned the Nigerian police for firing tear gas canisters directly at party officials and newsmen during Tuesday’s confrontation at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja.
He stated this while featuring on a Television programme, noting that the party had on Monday received assurances from the Commissioner of Police, even though it anticipated resistance ahead of its planned inaugural National Working Committee meeting.
“We went to the Commissioner of Police. We didn’t just send a letter. He assured us of police cover,” he said.
The PDP chieftain warned that the country was gradually sliding toward “electoral authoritarianism” ahead of the 2027 general elections.
Earlier, the All Progressives Congress had berated Kabiru Turaki over what it described as a reckless and unpatriotic call for foreign intervention in Nigeria’s internal political crisis.
After the political kerfuffle, the former Minister of Special duties and intergovernmental affairs, formally assumed office as the New chairman of the major opposition party in the country.
Turaki, who arrived in company of Oyo and Bauchi states Governors; Seyi Makinde and Bala Mohammed, appreciated his loyalists for the courage to resist attempts to destabilise the party and nation’s democracy.
