Nigeria, May 23 -- The acting chairman of Nigeria's main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ambassador Umar Iliya Damagun, has denied allegations that he is secretly working for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). These accusations, he claims, are the result of internal party tensions and attempts to discredit him.

In an interview with the BBC Hausa on Thursday night, Damagun rejected the notion that he is a puppet of the APC and responded by invoking divine justice.

"Allah is enough between me and those spreading these lies," he said. "I have never joined the APC not during Buhari's time or now. I have been with the PDP since 1999 and have never defected."

He suggested that those who oppose his leadership wi...