PDP Insists APC Planning To Islamize Nigeria

There seems to be no end in sight to the renewed war of words between the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, over religion in politics with the former insisting on Wednesday that the opposition party is balkanizing the country along religious lines.

The PDP, in a statement by its spokesperson, Olisa Metuh, also challenged the APC to publish the list of its 35 interim officials and state their offices.
The challenge was in apparent reaction to APC’s claim that its interim officials comprise 18 Muslims and 17 Christians.
“It is shocking that the APC would attempt to hoodwink Nigerians even in the face of incontrovertible facts exposing its religious inclinations and plots to divide the nation along religious lines”, Metuh said.
The PDP added that contrary to the denials posted by the APC in its statement on Wednesday,
“the revelations by an Islamic cleric, Ambassador Yusuf Garba and the Religious Equity Promotion Council (REPC) that APC seeks to impose an agenda like the Egypt Muslim Brotherhood remains a fact that cannot be brushed aside”.
The ruling party further stressed that it will continue to expose and resist anything that seeks to cause divisions among Nigerians.
It also urged Nigerians to resist the antics of the APC to Islamise the country.