The Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, Friday stated that there would be no automatic ticket for for any aspirant
or erstwhile Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, if he finally joins the
former ruling party.
Atiku announced his resignation
from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC on Friday.
The PDP, while ruling out an
automatic ticket for any party member, said whoever is interested in contesting
an elective office, including the former Vice President, must be prepared to
submit to constitutional provisions in the spirit of democracy.
The party’s National Publicity
Secretary, Prince Dayo Adeyeye said this while addressing newsmen at the
party’s secretariat in Abuja.
He said, “The PDP is democratic
party. If you come in, you are free to contest elections once you meet our
constitutional requirements, but we can’t give our ticket to anybody like that
(automatic).
“However and unfortunately in
2013, they were deceived into believing that there was a platform that would
correct all the ills in the PDP and that it could create an Eldorado in Nigeria.
“We believe Atiku Abubakar has
come to know the truth like he said in the statement that he has now known the
truth, that the APC is not what they call themselves…That platform ( APC) is
the worst platform in the history of politics in Nigeria.
“I believe people like Atiku were
deceived because we had challenges in our party at that point in time. They
went and join the new party called the APC which we have all now see, every
Nigerian has seen, is a fallacy.
“The day APC was born marked a
tragedy for Nigeria. It has been a monumental disaster for Nigeria. There is
nothing progressive in them. Everything about them is unprogressive. Everything
about them is complete disaster.
“It is human to make mistakes
because we are not infallible. We have no knowledge of what will happen in the
future. Human beings can always be deceived.
“But in John 8: 32, the Bible
says ‘And you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.’”
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