Peoples Democratic Party has warned some ex-militants who have been threatening violence if President Goodluck Jonathan loses the February 14 presidential election to desist from such act.
The party said those making such statement should realise that the President remains the President of all Nigerians irrespective of their tribe, region and religious believe.
National Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh, stated this in an interview with selected group of journalists in Abuja on Friday.
Metuh was reacting to the statements credited to some ex-militants that there would be war, or that the country would break, if Jonathan loses the election.
Among those who have made such threats were former leaders of Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, Mr. Government Ekpemupolo (Tompolo) and the Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples’ Volunteer Force, Mr. Dokubo Asari.
But Metuh said such comments by the party’s supporters must be stopped, stressing that Jonathan , who is an Ijaw man like the ex-militants, must not be labelled as the President of Ijaw.
When asked while the party had remained silent over the statements which had attracted condemnation from opposition political parties and eminent Nigerians.
Metuh said, “We are not in agreement with their statements and we are cautioning them to mind what they say.
“No individual own the party. The President could be more loved in Anambra than Ijaw area, he could have support in Adamawa than in Bayelsa. He even said in Adamawa State that he had more votes from there in 2011 than his home state of Bayelsa.
“Jonathan is not the President of Ijaw or South-South. He should not be reduced to just the President of Ijaw alone. He is the president of the whole country.”
He also called on those campaigning for the party and the President to be decent in their languages, saying that those who founded the party were men of honour.
On the pelting of the President with stones and sachet of pure water in some northern states, Metuh said that that should not be used as a sign of rejection of the PDP presidential candidate.
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