BARELY 24 hours to the National Assembly election in Borno State, 16 local government executives and supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday officially defected from the party to the ruling All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP), over alleged “injustices and lack of internal democracy.’
At a crowded media briefing, leader of the defectors, Sugu Mai Mele said: “We here that appear before the press have no option than to leave the party for the ruling ANPP, because the PDP, after 12 years of being in the opposition, still lacks the capacity to take the party to the promised land.”
“The PDP today is a shadow of the fully united, purposeful, focused and battle-ready party we had during the 2007 elections.”
Mele blamed the leadership for all the electoral woes of the party, stating that the so-called elders, mostly resident in Abuja, are out of touch with the party’s rank and file and as a result, the party never had the chance of forming a government in Borno State since 1999.
“Part of their (party elders’) strategy is to ensure that a PDP governor never emerges in Borno so that they could seek relevant offices like those of ministers, advisers and board chairmen in Abuja.
“Several months after the kangaroo primaries, the party is still reeling from the consequence such that it led to deep-seated disaffection and mistrust among party members who continued to leave the party en-mass and having multiple candidates for the same constituencies as it has been the case with PDP senatorial candidature for Borno Central which is hitherto unresolved,” he added.
But reacting to the defections, the former scribe of the PDP and a top official of the Goni Campaign Organization, Alhaji Ibrahim Shettima, said the party is not in any way bothered by the exit of the group even as it had long awaited their exit alongside their leader, Kashim Imam whom he said “had been the sole problem of the party since 2003.”
Shettima added: “We have long known their antics and we know how he (Kashim) had contributed in fanning the embers of discord in the state all the while.”
Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everydayAt a crowded media briefing, leader of the defectors, Sugu Mai Mele said: “We here that appear before the press have no option than to leave the party for the ruling ANPP, because the PDP, after 12 years of being in the opposition, still lacks the capacity to take the party to the promised land.”
“The PDP today is a shadow of the fully united, purposeful, focused and battle-ready party we had during the 2007 elections.”
Mele blamed the leadership for all the electoral woes of the party, stating that the so-called elders, mostly resident in Abuja, are out of touch with the party’s rank and file and as a result, the party never had the chance of forming a government in Borno State since 1999.
“Part of their (party elders’) strategy is to ensure that a PDP governor never emerges in Borno so that they could seek relevant offices like those of ministers, advisers and board chairmen in Abuja.
“Several months after the kangaroo primaries, the party is still reeling from the consequence such that it led to deep-seated disaffection and mistrust among party members who continued to leave the party en-mass and having multiple candidates for the same constituencies as it has been the case with PDP senatorial candidature for Borno Central which is hitherto unresolved,” he added.
But reacting to the defections, the former scribe of the PDP and a top official of the Goni Campaign Organization, Alhaji Ibrahim Shettima, said the party is not in any way bothered by the exit of the group even as it had long awaited their exit alongside their leader, Kashim Imam whom he said “had been the sole problem of the party since 2003.”
Shettima added: “We have long known their antics and we know how he (Kashim) had contributed in fanning the embers of discord in the state all the while.”
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