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Armsgate, APC’s vendetta against PDP, Dokpesi says

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Embattled founder of Daar Communications, owners of African Independent Television and Ray Power FM, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, is fiction created by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) solely aimed at weakening the leadership of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and destroying the party.

According to him, the whole matter was created in pursuit of a vendetta agenda by the APC-led federal government.

Former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki is on trial for allegedly sharing out about $2.1 billion meant for procurement of arms to Dokpesi and other members of the PDP, in the run up to the 2015 general elections.

While speaking in his office in Abuja on Tuesday when he was honoured by PDP youths under the aegis, PDP Youth Vanguard, as their patron, Dokpesi, stressed that the $2.1 billion armsgate was a figment of the imagination of the Federal Government.

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Dokpesi said: “Our party is indeed experiencing a massive persecution, political reprisal and vendetta, of the kind never before seen on our shores and targeted at the leadership, membership and indeed sympathizers of the PDP by the APC government of the day.

“I wish to emphasise that the current ruling party is making efforts to impede our journey to political maturity through the manipulation of the federal system to serve purely partisan interest.”

He also stated, “I must hasten to assure you that there is nothing like the much flaunted $2.1 billion armsgate. The competent courts of our land would sooner or later prove this coinage aimed at decimating the leadership and membership of our great party to be nothing but a hoax.

“Some of us are reminded of the events of 1984/85 which by any stretch of comparison are similar to the unfolding events of today. As I have said not too long ago, we must stand resolutely united especially in the face of this momentary political adversity. For one thing, I say again that the PDP is not dead, is not dying and will not die.

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