Our Reporter, Abuja
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Kabiru Turaki, SAN, has issued an emotional appeal to United States president, Donald Trump, and the international community to come and save Nigeria’s democracy following an alleged invasion of the PDP National Secretariat in Abuja on Monday.
The newly elected chairman of the main opposition party cried out on Tuesday after a violent incident reportedly involving thugs alleged to have been sponsored by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, who was expelled from the PDP during the party’s National Convention held over the weekend in Ibadan, Oyo State.
In a video making the rounds on social media, Turaki condemned the alleged attack, describing it as a direct assault on the nation’s democracy. He accused Wike, a serving minister in President Bola Tinubu’s administration, of leading “armed thugs” into the Secretariat with what he said was the “active and full support” of police officers.
Visibly distressed, the chairman flanked by the governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, issued a strongly worded appeal to the global community.
“I want to call on President Trump. What is at stake is not just genocide against Nigerian Christians. He should come and save democracy in Nigeria. Democracy is under threat,” Turaki said.
He continued: “I’m 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 and full support from the police to come and create mayhem here.”
Turaki vowed that the party’s leadership would resist intimidation, insisting that they were prepared to “lay down our lives to protect our office, to protect our democracy, to protect our mandate.”
He urged Nigerians and the international community to “take note” of what he described as a grave threat to the country’s democratic values.
“Nigerians, you are watching. The international community, you are seeing the threat Nigerian democracy is in. Come and save us, come and save us,” he pleaded.
As of press time, neither Wike nor the Federal Government had issued an official response to the allegations.
The PDP’s internal crisis deepened last weekend when Wike, along with several other party figures, was expelled by the National Convention over alleged anti-party activities. The Secretariat invasion by both factions laying claims to the PDP leadership has now intensified tension within the opposition party, prompting renewed fears about political stability and partisan confrontations in the lead-up to future elections.
