A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Sam
Ohuabunwa, has said that he would not be sleeping well if he were in the shoes
of Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the main opposition party.
Ohuabunwa said that different meetings being held in Port
Harcourt between Governor Nyesom Wike and other opposition candidates and
camps, would have given him some sleepless nights.
Ever since his defeat at the PDP presidential primaries by
Atiku Abubakar, the Rivers State Governor has been in romance with some
candidates of different political parties.
The latest of such meetings was between the Governor and the
presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi.
And appearing on Channels Television on Tuesday night,
Ohuabunwa accused the PDP leadership of taking competitors such as Peter Obi
for granted, warning that such an act was dangerous.
He said that if he was on Atiku’s side, he would take all
those ovatures and meetings in Port Harcourt seriously, insisting that in
Nigeria there’s no political meeting that is for nothing.
“One of the greatest failures of people is to underrate
competitors. As the CEO for a multi-national company for many years, I do not underrate
competition no matter how small they are.
“And every move the competitor makes in the marketplace
causes an alarm for me and I deploy forces to counter those quickly because you
don’t have a second chance.
“The problem of the party may not be as bad as it is looking
but the media say perception is everything and we need to pour water on this
and put it off.
“Certainly, all those political meetings everybody is coming
to, if I’m the Chairman of the political party or the presidential candidate I don’t
think I’ll sleep well or maybe because I don’t have the kind of heart or spirit
that they have. I won’t sleep well.
“The next morning I’ll ensure that I fly down to Port
Harcourt or wherever I need to fly and pour water on it and close this chapter so
that we can move forward.
“That’s my candid advice and I’ve offered this advice
through proxies to the party leadership that we need to harness our resources.
This party is bleeding right now…the party has had enough time to sort out this
problem.
“The problem is that this is not the only one. Just that
this is the most visible one. And if we’re taking so much time to finish this,
how are we going to deal with the others?… I think that the party leadership
has a call, they should be humble, dynamic and strategic with the party.”
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