The Opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said the ruling All
progressive Congress, APC, is a sinking ship that has reached its wits
end.
The PDP was reacting to a statement credited to Information Minister, Mr.
Lai Mohammed where he called for the withdrawal of the certificate of
registration of the opposition party.
Spokesman of the PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbondinyan said the call to deregister
the PDP exposes the APC as a ruling party bent on strangulating the main
opposition party.
The Statement reads:
Our attention has been drawn to a press statement by the Minister of
Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, wherein he demanded that the
certificate of registration issued to the PDP by the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) should be withdrawn because the PDP
lost in an election and according to him, does not know how to function
as an opposition party.
We want to alert all Nigerians of a clandestine plot by the All
Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government to strangulate the
main opposition party and plot the way for the self-succession plan of
their candidate, President Muhammadu Buhari.
Our party has been following all the schemes and shenanigans of the APC
as 2019 general elections draw nearer.
The main plank of the plot is to ensure that President Buhari runs as a
sole candidate in 2019. To achieve this grand plan, they must work to
exterminate all known and perceived political opposition platforms in
our country.
Is it not strange that a party who, in its almost five years of
existence, cannot constitute a Board of Trustees (BoT) in line with the
provisions of its own constitution will be asking INEC to withdraw the
certificate of a party whose all organs are intact and effectively
functioning?
Is it not also laughable that a party, who cannot hold even a
non-elective convention, will be calling for the withdrawal of PDPs
certificate?
It is imperative to tell Alhaji Lai Mohammed and his cohorts in the APC
that any masquerade that dances first will eventually have to watch the
dance steps of others from the stand.
It is clear now that the APC and its Federal Government have come to
their wits end. All they need to do now is to sit by and watch Nigerians
collectively return the PDP to powers and by so doing restore the nation
to the path of unity, national cohesion and economic prosperity come
2019.
Kola Ologbondinyan
PDP National Publicity Secretary.