Former National Vice- Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George, has affirmed that the party remains unshakable despite the ‘coup’ against them by major opposition parties.
It would be recalled that the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the All Nigerian Peoples’ Party (ANPP) and the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), as well as certain chieftains of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), had on Wednesday announced the formation of the APC which they vowed, would oust the ruling PDP in 2015 general elections.
Chief Tom Ikimi who addressed newsmen in Abuja said that the merger was informed by the, “resolve to form a political party committed to the principles of internal democracy, focused on serious issues of concern to our people, determined to bring corruption and insecurity to an end, determined to grow our economy and create jobs in their millions through education, housing, agriculture, industrial growth and stop the increasing mood of despair and hopelessness among our people.’’
But while reacting to the new alliance, Bode an ex convict averred that the APC was a coalition of teenagers in politics on a road to nowhere.
“They are teenagers in politics of this country and we aren’t afraid of them. It is even good that for the first time, we are having a semblance of opposition who are living their comfort zones as tribal warlords. Let us see how Bola Tinubu and General Muhammadu Buhari would sustain this. We aren’t afraid. Can Tinubu work with Buhari? It is a huge joke. Where are they going to meet? They are incompatible. They have no common ground.” The PDP chieftain further expressed confidence that the party would remain the party to beat in the country, as he claimed that it was “the only party that has the true colours” of the country.
“The foundation that brought PDP was a coalition of people with different ideologies. It was created to fight the General Sani Abacha regime. But our founding fathers laid a solid foundation. It is PDP with our Constitution that has sustained democracy. We have existed for 14 years.
Before, politicians only held sway in their tribal zones, but the founding fathers of PDP created a sense of oneness. It is the only party that has the true colours of this country. It is in PDP that you have the major ethnic groups in the country and the minorities coalescing together,” he said.
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