The ACN also said the adoption of candidates for party offices by consensus had sealed the fate of the party as “an undisputed one-man-show that is totally contemptuous of internal democracy.”The party said in a statement in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, that the PDP lacked internal democracy.
It also took a swipe at President Goodluck Jonathan for saying only the PDP possesses internal democracy, noting that Saturday’s convention had made a mockery of Jonathan’s recent statement. It should be noted that the President had earlier tagged other political parties as "A one man show"
and called PDP "the only truly democratic party in the country".
In making the statement, the aphorism that ‘he who lives in a glass house does not throw stones’ was lost on the President.
“’Today, the joke is on the same President, who cajoled and arm-twisted others to step down for his anointed candidate as chair of the PDP during a mock convention. It is now obvious that President Jonathan either does not understand what internal democracy means, or he is being deliberately cheeky in castigating other political parties for lacking in internal democracy,” it said.
The PDP on saturday chose Alhaji Bamanga Tukur as its national chairman by cosnensus. Some other officers of the party were picked in a similar fashion. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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kettle calling the pot black.
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