The National Chairman of the
Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Uche Secondus, on Thursday, in Abuja threw a
jibe at the All Progressives Congress, saying that the party had become a lame
duck.
This came after former President
Olusegun Obasanjo wrote a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari warning him against
seeking re-election.
He said Obasanjo’s statement has
also exposed the corruption and nepotism in the Buhari administration.
Secondus spoke when he and
members of the party National Working Committee met with former ministers who
served under the PDP regime in Abuja.
He also tasked the former
ministers to mobilise their constituents ahead of the 2019 elections, saying
that was an opportunity for PDP to get back to power.
He said, “The NWC is also putting
all the necessary strategies together, and we assure you that come 2019,
Nigerians will vote for PDP. APC has failed woefully.
“Our nation is in a situation
where PDP must save this nation from total collapse. The government of APC and
the APC itself have become a lame duck after former President Obasanjo released
a political tsunami and verdict on the government.
“His letter chronicled happenings
in the government and the country. It is red card for this ineptitude
government and we all support Obasanjo’s position.
“Those of you who are interested
to vie for one office or the other, we want to assure you that our doors are
very open.
“The best way to go from where we
found ourselves today is to make sure that we conduct very transparent
elections, be it the congresses or the primaries.
“I want to assure that the old
system of imposition or any other thing that will go contrary to our
constitution will be far off from the NWC members, we will not go that way.
“We will go strictly and abide by
our constitution and our rules. That is the promise of the NWC. Our laws must
be obeyed, our rules must be obeyed, we must follow them in order to restore
confidence to our people.”
Secondus disclosed that the party
would also devolve power, “because, over the years, so much powers have been
concentrated at the centre.”
He also said, “And we discovered
that the only way to do it is to devolve power to the grassroots. And our
slogan explained it all, power to the people. So the people at home can decide,
not the people in Abuja or NWC.
“Let the people at the various
constituents and states decide who will represent them, it will make the
election easy for us.”
The Chairman said that the NWC
was also putting the necessary strategies together, and “will we assure that
come 2019, that Nigerians will vote for PDP. APC has failed woefully.”
Responding, the Chairman of
former Ministers Forum who was a former Minister of Special Duties, Alhaji
Kabiru Turaki (SAN), said that with the kind of leaders the party has, “the war
to bring back what rightly belongs to us has started.
“We said it that there are only
two political parties, PDP and the rest. Even the ones that people thought were
political parties, people have realised that they are mere associations and
clubs that have come together, wreaking havoc on our democracy. Nigerians have
seen them for what they are.
“I want to call on you to open
your doors very wide because all those that are real politicians, all those
that are Democrats will come back home and we are ready for them.
“As you begin your crusade of
saving democracy in Nigeria, crusade of saving Nigeria from hunger, from
poverty, from insecurity, from hopelessness and joblessness, it should be at
the back of your mind that the colossal knowledge, experience and technical
know-how at the disposal of the former ministers is there for you to tap.”
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