Niger coup: Tinubu under fire for ‘desperately dragging Nigeria into war’

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has launched a scathing accusation against the President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government, asserting that it is recklessly steering Nigeria toward the brink of war for undisclosed motivations.

The PDP’s claims are centered around a projected conflict with Niger Republic, which they assert is unnerving the nation and intensifying existing tensions.

Debo Ologunagba, the spokesperson for the PDP, issued a strongly worded statement in which he accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of orchestrating a dangerous scenario that threatens to plunge Nigeria into a state of armed conflict. Ologunagba contended that the APC’s actions were aimed at entangling the nation’s military in an unnecessary clash with neighboring Niger Republic.

According to him: “The PDP observes that the insistence by the APC administration to draft Nigerian soldiers into Niger Republic in defiance to the disapproval by the National Assembly and Nigerians across board, validates apprehensions in the public domain of ulterior motives by the Tinubu-led APC to import crisis and destabilize our nation for political reasons.

“While the PDP frowns at unconstitutional change of government in any part of the world, our Party holds that the situation in Niger Republic does not warrant any external peace-keeping effort and does not constitute any threats whatsoever to our national interest to justify committing our already overstretched military to harm’s way in a needless war.

“The insistence of the APC government to go to war in Niger Republic is already heightening tension in Nigeria.

“There are insinuations in the public that the APC is only desperate to deploy Nigerian military to Niger Republic so as to provoke possible external aggression from that country, thereby orchestrating a situation for the declaration of a State of Emergency in Nigeria with the tendency to cripple the judicial process on the 2023 Presidential election and divert attention from the hardship the APC has foisted on the nation in the last two months.”