PDP Crumbling Under Your Watch, APC Tells Secondus

The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday asked the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, to concentrate on saving his party which it said had become “shockingly rudderless under his watch.”

The party was reacting to the recent remarks made by Secondus about President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC’s decision to defend and support free, fair elections, particularly the 2019 elections as opposed to previous elections alleged to have been militarised by the PDP.

Spokesman of the APC, Yekini Nabena, who gave the party’s postion, said the PDP had never had it so bad under Secondus, with stakeholders of the party detached from its activities, “as was witnessed with notable PDP leaders boycotting the Party’s 2019 presidential campaigns and the recent Bayelsa State Governorship bribe-for-ticket scandal that indicted Secondus.”

According to Nabena, the recent months have witnessed many PDP members resigning their membership due to Secondus’ activities which he claimed had brought the PDP to its knees.

He said, “The PDP under Secondus is in willful denial of the obvious that under the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC administration, free, fair and credible elections is the new normal. Voting power is fast returning to the people and the era of stolen and procured votes is fast-fading.

“We reiterate that President Buhari’s declaration that the APC could have used the military and other security services to overrun opposition states in the 2019 general election but chose free, fair elections is a solid pointer and demonstration our our proven democratic and progressive credentials.

“Why will the PDP under Secondus not support efforts to ensure the independence of our state institutions such as the Judiciary, INEC and our security services and ultimately deepen our democracy and improve our electioneering system?”

The APC Spokesman also called on progressive politicians, particularly in the PDP, not to “sink with the opposition party which has become clearly disillusioned under Secondus.”

He further said the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led APC Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee (CENCPC) had created a healthy and progressive political environment in the APC and was entrenching internal democracy.

Such, he added, was geared towards electing into public offices patriotic countrymen who will put the people first and contribute to achieving the Nigeria everyone desire and deserve, saying that the party defends the fact that power belongs to the people and during elections, votes must count.

“The APC welcomes all Progressives,” he concluded.

THE WHISTLER recalls that former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and Former Benue Senator, Barnabas Gemade recently defected to the APC from the PDP.