PDP is crumbling under your watch, APC to Secondus
By Tunde Opalana
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has been knocked over his recent call on President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure free, fair and credible elections in the country, Daily Times gathered.
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) asked Secondus to rather be concerned with the recent rough edges in PDP that is about to consume him as the party’s chairman.
Deputy National Publicity Secretary of APC, Yekini Nabena while reacting to the recent comments made by Secondus on President Muhammadu Buhari and APC’s decision to defend and support free, fair elections, calls on Secondus to focus on the PDP which has become shockingly rudderless under his watch
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The ruling party said under Secondus, the PDP has never had it this bad with the opposition party’s stakeholders detached from the party 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.
Deriding the chairman, the APC said the recent months have witnessed many PDP members resign their membership due to Secondus activities that have brought the PDP to its knees.
“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 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?”, he said.
The APC advised the progressive partisans, particularly in the PDP not to sink with the opposition party “which has become clearly disillusioned under Secondus” to come into the APC fold under the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led APC Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee (CENCPC) which has created a healthy and progressive political environment in the APC.
Nabena said the APC is entrenching internal democracy which is geared towards electing into public offices patriotic countrymen who will put the people first and contribute to achieving Nigeria that all desire and deserve.
