Leading opposition party, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has lambasted the leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over its recent comment that the merger talks between ACN and CPC would not cross the bridge, stressing that PDP is suffering from deep paranoia.
The National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in a statement issued on Friday affirmed that the PDP is afraid by the talks than the resort.
It said the tagging of the ACN as a ‘one-man party’ and CPC as a party that ”believes in violence’ by Olisa Metuh was to score cheap credit.
The statement reads sin part: “The truth of the matter is that PDP is terrified of the outcome of the merger talks. From the commencement of these talks, PDP has been having nightmares. However the truth of the matter is that these talks have the blessing of a significant chunk of the leadership of the PDP who, for the time being, cannot come out publicly.”
”Well, Mr. Metuh, here is a message you may want to convey to your paymasters: No amount of name calling, blackmail or character assassination can stop an idea whose time has come.
“And if the PDP is so sure that the talks will fail, why is it even bothering to make any comments at all? We are comforted by the wise saying that anywhere you see the sign that reads “No Thoroughfare”, then it means there is a road there.
PDP’s days as a political party are numbered with the assured success of these talks.” It added, “All we have to say is that those who have the good fortune of belonging to the ACN know that there is no political party with a more robust democratic practice than the ACN. “As a matter of fact, the usual remarks of former PDP members who joined our party is that they never believed any political party can be as democratic and inclusive in arriving at decisions affecting the party and its members as they have found in ACN. “Perhaps Metuh had not joined the PDP when Gov. Rotimi Amechi of Rivers State, who won the PDP primary elections for the Governorship of Rivers State, had his ticket forcibly taken away from him and it took the Supreme Court of Nigeria – in a landmark decision – to restore his ticket to him and pronounce him Governor, even though his name was not on the ballot. “Or may we ask where was Metuh when the PDP, after the death of late President Umaru Yar’Adua, decided to jettison its zoning agreement on the platform of shameless expediency to pave the way for President Goodluck Jonathan,” ACN queried. “Again, we ask: Where was Metuh when some gangsters with the full backing of the highest echelon of the PDP kidnapped a serving governor, or when the leader of the same gangsters openly confessed to the then President that he singlehandedly rigged election in favour of the PDP in the 2003 Anambra Governorship poll? “Perhaps, Mr. Metuh should take time to study the antecedents of his party before washing its dirty linens in public in the name of criticizing other political parties. Far from the picture painted of the PDP by Mr. Metuh in his interview, his party is nothing but a conglomeration of strange bedfellows whose only bond is the sharing of the largesse they have made of the nation’s commonwealth in the past 13 years,” the statement added.
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