PDP Warns Kolade against Making Inciting Statements against the Presidency
The Peoples Democratic Party responded to former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Dr. Christopher Kolade’s claims that the presidency is not committed to fighting insurgency in the country, saying the former SURE-P chairman is getting his facts mixed.
The National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Olisa Metuh, said, “We regret that Dr. Kolade, an eminent Nigerian with very senior diplomatic credentials, who also served as the Chairman of SURE-P, a special development and empowerment programme of the Jonathan administration, apparently got his facts mixed up about the character and person of the President and the nature of the overall security challenges in our country.
“We in the PDP, in our usual high moral ground of decency, decided to exercise restraint expecting Dr. Kolade to retract his statement, but such never came, hence this reaction.”
The statement also quoted the party as saying citizens should handle their rights to express themselves with care.
“It is only fair that comments, particularly those from prominent persons in the mold of Dr. Kolade, must be based only on the truth.”