There Is No Qualms If Daura Is Our Member - APC

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has insisted
that the Director General of the State Security
Services, SSS, Lawal Daura, is not a card-carrying
member of the party, saying nothing short of
producing Mr. Daura’s membership card or
evidence of his membership registration could
prove that he is indeed a member of the APC as
alleged by the PDP.
”While it amounts to rabble-rousing and crass
politicking for the PDP to have wrongly accused
Mr. Daura of being a member of the APC without a
scintilla of credible evidence, the PDP has
weakened its argument by using the pictures in
which Mr. Daura appeared with the President and
the fact that he served in an election committee as
evidence of his membership of the APC,” the party
said in a statement issued in Lagos on Friday by
its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed.
”Possession of an APC membership card by Mr.
Daura or evidence of registration as a party
member at his ward, local government or state will
be the only conclusive evidence of his
membership of the party,” it said. ”Until such an
evidence is produced, we are sorry we have to tell
the PDP to shut up!”
Mr. Daura, who was appointed SSS boss early
July, served on the security committee of the APC
presidential campaign.
The PDP accuses him of serving the interest of
APC at the SSS.
But the APC said the PDP is jittery because it is
keenly aware of the kind of impunity perpetrated
under the federal government it sired from 1999
to 2015.
The party also drew comparisons with similar roles
played in the past for PDP by government officials.
”PDP has forgotten the saying that he who must
come to equity must
come with clean hands. When Mr. Mike Okiro
chaired the security committee of the PDP
campaign in 2011, did that prevent him from being
appointed the Chair of the Police Service
Commission, which is responsible for issues
concerning the welfare, promotion and discipline of
all police personnel, in 2013?
”When the Director-General of the National
Orientation Agency (NOA), Mr. Mike Omeri, was
appointed into the Jonathan election committee in
2015, did he resign his appointment as head of the
agency or did he automatically become a card-
carrying member of the PDP?
”Did retired Col. Kayode Are not become the DG of
the DSS despite being a close confidante of Gen.
Obasanjo during his electioneering campaign to
become President? Was this not under a PDP
Federal Government?
”In any case, even in the world’s most advance
democracy, United States, was a card-carrying
Democrat, Mr. Leon Panetta, not named as head of
the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by President
Barack Obama in 2009? Here in Nigeria, the APC-
led FG has not even gone that far, and the PDP is
blabbing.
”It is an irony that the APC-led Federal
Government, which has continued to conduct the
affairs of state with a strict adherence to the law, is
the one being accused by the immoral,
irresponsible and grossly hypocritical PDP. A party
that should cover its face in shame for wasting all
of 16 years in the life of our country, a party whose
members should show penance by hunkering
down has continued to assault the sensibilities of a
decent nation. What a shame,” APC said.