Produce APC membership card of DG-DSS or keep quiet, APC tells PDP

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has insisted that the DG of DSS, Mr. Lawal Daura, is not a card-carrying member of the party, saying nothing short of producing Mr. Daura’s membership card or evidence of his membership registration will convince discerning Nigerians that he is indeed a member of the APC as alleged by the PDP.

“While it amounts to rabble-rousing and crass politicking for the PDP to have wrongly accused Mr. Daura of being a member of the APC without a scintilla of credible evidence, the PDP has weakened its argument by using the pictures in which Mr. Daura appeared with the President and the fact that he served in an election committee as evi­dence of his

membership of the APC,’’ the party said in a statement issued in Lagos on Friday by its National Publicity Secre­tary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

“Possession of an APC membership card by Mr. Daura or evidence of reg­istration as a party member at his ward, local government or state will be the only conclusive evidence of his mem­bership of the party,’’ it said. ‘’Until such an evidence is produced, we are sorry we have to tell the PDP to shut up!’’

APC said the PDP is jittery because it is keenly aware of the kind of impunity perpetrated under the federal govern­ment it sired from 1999 to 2015.

“PDP has forgotten the saying that he who must come to equity must come with clean hands. When Mr. Mike Okiro chaired the security committee of the PDP campaign in 2011, did that prevent him from being

appointed the Chair of the Police Ser­vice Commission, which is responsible for issues concerning the welfare, pro­motion and discipline of all police per­sonnel, in 2013?

“When the Director-General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mr. Mike Omeri, was appointed into the Jonathan election committee in 2015, did he resign his appointment as head of the agency or did he automatically become a card-carrying member of the PDP?

“Did retired Col. Kayode Are not become the DG of the DSS despite be­ing a close confidante of Gen. Obasanjo during his electioneering campaign to become President? Was this not under a PDP Federal Government?

“In any case, even in the world’s most advance democracy, United States, was a card-carrying Democrat, Mr. Leon Panetta, not named as head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by President Barack Obama in 2009? Here in Nigeria, the APC-led FG has not even gone that far, and the PDP is blabbing.

“It is an irony that the APC-led Fed­eral Government, which has continued to conduct the affairs of state with a strict adherence to the law, is the one being accused by the immoral, ir­responsible and grossly hypocritical PDP. A party that should cover its face in shame for wasting all of 16 years in the life of our country, a party whose

members should show penance by hunkering down has continued to as­sault the sensibilities of a decent na­tion. What a shame,’’ APC said.