A former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has accused President Goodluck Jonathan, of selling out the Peoples Democratic Party, during the 2011 presidential election.
Abubakar, in an article on Sunday, titled, “There is need to reverse the declining trend of PDP in the South West” gave his thoughts on the crisis facing the South West chapter of the party,.
He wondered how the party was defeated in all other elections in the zone but the presidential poll, saying the leadership was consciously instigating crisis in the party for personal survival. Abubakar said “It still remains a paradox to me how the presidential candidate of the party would win massively in all but one state of the South West, yet the party failed to produce a single state governor in the region and could only produce 18 State Assembly members in the same election. “My experience in politics tells me that this paradox can only be explained in one way, that is the leadership of the party must have abandoned the party and negotiated the victory of the President at the expense of the Party.”
Abubakar accused the leadership of the party of not showing enough sincerity in the resolution of the crisis facing the party.
According to him, recent events have shown that the PDP leadership has demonstrated insufficient sincerity in resolving the numerous crises which are pitching the party members against themselves. “Political maneuvering that relies on the politics of patronage and arbitrary application of sanctions will not sustain the popular will of the people through which the party can recover the lost ground,” he added.
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