APC Desperately Wooing Our Governors - PDP The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party said it was aware that the All Progressives Congress was wooing and coaxing some of its governors. In its reaction to the Tuesday meeting by some APC leaders in Sokoto, the PDP stated that by wooing and coaxing its governors, the APC had shown it lacked true followership. Four aggrieved PDP governors - Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto); Rabiu Kwakwanso (Kano); Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers); and Sule Lamido (Jigawa), were present at the meeting which was attended by a former Head of State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and an ex-Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu Three other aggrieved governors of the PDP, Aliyu Babangida (Niger); Murtala Nyako (Adamawa); and Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara) were however absent. The APC leadership was said to have used the Tuesday meeting to discuss the possibility of the aggrieved governors defecting to the APC. But the PDP, in a statement on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, said it was ironical that the APC was celebrating mere discussions with three or four of its governors. The statement said that for desperately coaxing PDP governors, the hypocritical party had shown that it lacked genuine ideology and principles. The statement added, By wooing PDP governors, the APC has also confirmed that it lacked true followership and electable materials at all levels, hence its desperate bid to poach from the PDP. The statement added that the APC had also shown that it was nothing but a party of hypocrites driven by desperate and blind quest for power and not by any ideology geared towards serving the interest of the people. Expressing optimism that the bid to poach its governors and other members would not yield any meaningful result, the PDP said the normal practice is for politically- informed persons to move away from parochial parties such as the APC to a national party with robust ideology and agenda such as the PDP and not vice- versa. It said by wooing its members, the APC had shown its height of hypocrisy and ultimately confirming to Nigerians that it had nothing to offer. The ruling party stated that if the APC did not lack genuine followership and electable materials, it would not be desperate to poach its members. Why would it celebrate and dramatise mere discussions with three or four of our aggrieved governors?, it asked in the statement. The PDP however stated that it was not perturbed by the actions of the opposition party because no genuine member will opt for the APC, which it described as a party given to religious bigotry, promotion of violence and division among Nigerians. While appealing to its members not to join the APC, the PDP further alleged that the opposition party had continued to fan the embers of religious fanatism, ethnicism, dissensions and general social intolerance among Nigerians. But the Interim National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the PDP would soon realise that its supporters were no longer there. Mohammed, who spoke with our correspondent on the telephone, said the leadership of the APC had just met Kwankwaso and that with the way they were received, it was almost sure that PDP was dead in the state. He said, We met the governor of Kano State and I can tell you that we would be meeting governors of Jigawa and Adamawa states and other states very soon. With the crowd that received us, the PDP is just bellyaching and I can tell you that we have taken over their territory. Mohammed appealed to Nigerians to remain calm in the face of their suffering, saying it would soon be over.
Posted on: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:47:56 +0000
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