The national working committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), led by Kabiru Turaki, says Felix Morka, national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is spreading “delusional propaganda”.
On Monday, while speaking on The Morning Show, a programme on Arise TV, Morka said the PDP is no longer a political party, citing the party’s internal crisis and a wave of defections recorded in recent months.
“The PDP is no longer able to call itself a political party. The PDP is incapable, by its own internal dysfunction, of offering its members any sensible, credible, smart, actionable platform to pursue their political aspirations,” Morka said.
The APC spokesperson said defections to the APC should be seen as a growing endorsement of the ruling party rather than a sign that Nigeria is drifting toward a one-party state.
In a statement, Ini Ememobong, national publicity secretary of the Turaki PDP faction, said Morka’s comment indicates that he is “delusional”.
“Interestingly, reality shows that despite the large-scale defections secured by force and inducement by the APC, Nigerians have consistently rejected the ruling party, which is daily ruining Nigeria and Nigerians,” the statement reads.
“This is evident in the struggle their party has had with membership registration, where in many states, governors have copied the database of state empowerment programmes to populate their state registers. The recent disruption of the City Boys event in Owerri foreshadows what awaits them all over the country.”
Ememobong compared Morka to Joseph Goebbels, a former German politician and associate of Adolf Hitler, who served as the chief propagandist of the Nazi Party and later as Germany’s Reich minister of propaganda from 1933 to 1945.
“For Morka, who is struggling to become a modern-day Joseph Goebbels, he should remember that delusional propaganda does not just destroy a nation but ultimately consumes its proponents, as it did in Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler,” Ememobong said.
Ememobong added that when the nation’s history is written, and the mortal threat to democracy is documented, Morka’s name “will be boldly recorded in the pages of infamy as one of those who actively defended the Tinubu maladministration”.
