National Assembly leadership: Your threats are empty, PDP tells APC

The Peoples Demo­cratic Party (PDP) has dismissed threats by the All Progressives Congress (APC) against the new leadership of the National Assembly as empty boasts aimed at covering its na­ivety, inexperience and unpreparedness for gov­ernance.
The PDP also admon­ished the APC to shed its arrogance, eat the humble pie and get more organised for governance, adding that it lacked the capacity, ca­pability and means to sanc­tion duly elected leaders of the National Assembly.
National Publicity Sec­retary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, in a state­ment on Wednesday said the crass inexperience so far displayed by the APC was a pointer that it was not adequately equipped to handle the affairs of government at the centre, noting that events would continue to prove the PDP right in this regard.
“Nothing can be more astonishing than the whin­ing by the APC that the PDP at the last minute ex­pressed its preference for Senator Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara as Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representa­tives respectively after it had earlier stated that it was not interested in the posi­tions. This calls to question the capacity, experience and skills of APC leaders on political matters and we have no apology whatso­ever for their naivety.
“The APC is merely suf­fering the consequences of the greed, lust for power and inordinate ambitions of their leaders. They should note that Nigerians have since moved ahead with the new leaders in the National Assembly and stop wasting their energy on propaganda and blackmails to heat up the polity.”
The PDP further con­demned Tuesday’s botched attempts by the APC to close the National Assem­bly and stop lawmakers from carrying out their constitutional duties, as well as the threats to the newly-elected leaders as “totally against the tenets of democracy, the princi­ples of separation of pow­ers and independence of the legislature as enshrined in the constitution.

Culled from The Sun