Turaki-led PDP Backs Chairman’s Rescue Call For Foreign Intervention

The newly elected National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ini Ememobong, has condemned the police for firing tear gas canisters directly at party officials and journalists during Tuesday’s confrontation at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja.

Speaking on Politics Today on Channels Television, on Tuesday Ememobong said the party had anticipated resistance ahead of its planned inaugural National Working Committee meeting but had received assurances from the Commissioner of Police after a lengthy meeting on Monday.

“It was anticipated, I mean, because when light and darkness meet—when right and wrong meet—you prepare,.

“We went to the Commissioner of Police. We didn’t just send a letter. He assured us of police cover,” he said.

He noted that members of the newly elected executives had travelled from Ibadan and other parts of the country for the meeting.

Ememobong also defended the PDP chairman’s controversial call for U.S. President Donald Trump to intervene in Nigeria’s political situation, arguing that international actors had historically shaped the nation’s democratic path.

“Democracy was evangelised to us. When you look at the third-wave democratisation theory, Nigeria falls squarely into it. America, the United Kingdom, the European Union—they all played critical roles.