The All Progressives Congress, APC, has criticised the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for calling what it described as a foreign invasion of Nigeria.

The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Felix Morka, in a statement on Tuesday, described the call as reckless and unpatriotic.

UGAMATV reports that the new factional chairman of the PDP, Tanimu Turaki, while addressing journalists on Tuesday over the crisis ravaging his party, called on foreign powers to intervene in Nigeria to save the country from alleged “Christian genocide” and to protect democracy.

Reacting, the APC spokesperson said Turaki appeared desperate, at his wits’ end, confused, incoherent, and grossly lacking in stamina and capacity to manage his party’s crisis.

According to him, Nigerians expected that Turaki would set himself on an urgent peace-building mission to bring his party’s warring factions together in dialogue towards finding possible pathways to peace and reconciliation.

“Turaki’s first official act as factional chairman was his call for foreign invasion of Nigeria as a solution to the self-inflicted internal crisis of his PDP. This is not only reckless and unpatriotic, but shameless, and it is a dangerous threat to national security and sovereignty.

“Under the PDP’s 16 years in power, with its ruthless subversion of opposition parties, there was never a call for foreign invasion of Nigeria as a solution to crises within opposition parties of that era.

“We trust the international community to dismiss the PDP’s disgraceful and unpatriotic call as a pitiful distraction from the failure of its internal democracy and embarrassing disintegration,” Morka said.