The factional National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Kabiru Turaki, has called on US President Donald Trump to make haste and come to save democracy in Nigeria.
Turaki, who addressed journalists on Tuesday, November 18, in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), after FCT Minister Nyesom Wike’s faction clashed with members loyal to his leadership, said “what is at stake (in Nigeria) is not just genocide against Nigerian Christians.”
The PDP factional chairman said he cannot understand why a serving minister would lead armed thugs to create mayhem.
Referring to Trump, Turaki said, “He should come and save democracy in Nigeria. Democracy is under threat.
“I am calling on all other developed nations; all advanced democracies: Come and save Nigeria. Come and save democracy because I cannot understand how a serving minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria will be leading thugs, armed thugs, and then with the active connivance of the police to come and create mayhem here.”
Both the Wike- and Turaki-led groups of the PDP had planned the 103rd National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting for today at the national secretariat.
PDP came out of the primary election leading into the 2023 general election divided, with the crises deepening even as Nigeria is less than two years away from the next general election.
