2015: “Merger plans not a threat to PDP” – Iwuanyanwu boasts

Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu

Front-line politician and a member, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has said that the merger plan by leading opposition parties was no threat to PDP come 2015.

He noted that the ruling party would win with greater majority and as well reclaim most of the places it lost in the last election.

The politician-cum-business mogul made this known in a chat with newsmen on Friday in Abuja.

He described the merger plan as a gang up that would neither pull PDP down nor succeed.

His words: “As a democrat, I should sound a note of warning, I have read recently about a gang up of some political parties. They are not ganging up on the basis of ideology.

“They are ganging up because, they are afraid that unless they gang up, PDP will win the elections in 2015, this is a wrong political calculation,’’ Iwuanyanwu said.

The elder statesman said that political parties were supposed to be group of people with the same ideology and manifestos in order to govern a people and not with intent to pull down another paerty.

He said: “I am in PDP, but I believe that democracy is best practiced when there is a very strong opposition. Democracy without a strong opposition is worthless.

“They are making a mistake, they should tell Nigerians what they can do to change situations not how to pull PDP down, this is a wrong politics,’’

Iwuanyanwu added that the merger plan would soon hit the rocks because of conflicting interests that would be involved, saying that it would be in the interest of the PDP as merger would only make the party stronger.

Iwuanyanwu advised the opposition parties to exercise patience, noting that it took the Labour Party in Britain several years to get to power.

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