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The All Progressives Congress on Thursday urged the Peoples Democratic Party to stop playing politics with the lives of Nigerians.

The APC said it was wrong, irresponsible and uncharitable for the PDP to seek to make political gains out of the worsening insecurity and increasing terror attacks in the country.

This was contained in a statement signed by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in Gusau, the Zamfara State capital.

According to the party, Nigerians are too discerning to be hoodwinked by PDPs ceaseless finger-pointing and name calling, as exhibited by the partys overly-exuberant and rarely-introspecting spokesman.

In response, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, said the opposition party was simply trying to vent its frustrations on innocent Nigerians.

Metuh said, Their statements are as ugly as their looks and their actions. They are carrying their personal frustrations on Nigerians; we are a peaceful nation, they should leave us alone.

However, the APC insisted that Nigerians who watched the live telecast of the APC rally in Ado-Ekiti on Wednesday saw how the party, left with no choice than to proceed with the rally in view of the suddenness of the Jos bombings and the fact that INEC could not be prevailed upon to change the timetable of the Ekiti polls, made it as sober as possible under the circumstances.

The APC statement partly read, Despite the presence of musical groups and other performers, all musical breaks in the programme and all other scheduled performances were cut out, while the rally itself was drastically abridged. There is no doubt that the PDPs spokesman did not even bother to get the full details of the rally before rushing to the media in his usual jumpy self.

Mr. Olisah Metuh is definitely eager to act like an opposition spokesman rather than the spokesman for the ruling party. This is not a problem as his party is definitely fighting hard to trade places with the APC as the main opposition party come 2015. We can only appeal to Mr. Metuh to wait for a few more months and, in the meantime, start learning the ropes as an opposition spokesman.

The party equally reminded the PDP that the Ekiti rally was not the same thing as the illegal rally in Kano, where President Goodluck Jonathan led other PDP leaders to engage in Azonto dance less than 24 hours after 75 of his compatriots were killed in the first Nyanya bombing.

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