{"id":31036,"date":"2014-09-09T05:39:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T04:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=31036"},"modified":"2014-09-09T05:39:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T04:39:35","slug":"attack-members-leave-pdp-tells-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/attack-members-leave-pdp-tells-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"Do not attack your members who leave, PDP tells APC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed disgust at the way the All progressive Congress (APC) derides and maligns its members who leaves the party.<\/p>\n

Spokesman, Olisah Metuh, in statement said it is crass \u00a0 dictatorial politics to celebrate those who join them but abuse those who leave.<\/p>\n

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He cautioned \u201cthose expecting free and fair primaries for the selection of APC candidates for the 2015 general election to wake up to reality before it becomes too late.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Metuh added, \u201cThat the APC is a party of self-centered and dictatorial politicians with no regard for democratic principles is well known to all. However, we have noted a disturbing pattern, wherein the APC leaders now resort to personal attacks on people when they dump their party.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe vitriolic attacks, insults and threats on former Kano Governor Ibrahim Shekarau, his Sokoto state counterpart, Attahiru Bafarawa, former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani Kayode and several others who were labelled \u2018traitors and political misfits\u2019 by APC leaders when they left the party easily come to mind.<\/p>\n

\u201cNigerians ponder. Why is it that the APC only realizes that their members are traitors and misfits when they exercise their freedom of association and leave due to its undemocratic, destructive and anti-people agenda?<\/p>\n

\u201cOne notable example is the recent attack by the APC\u2019s unelected Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu against their former member, Chief Tom Ikimi, who he branded a \u2018sellout\u2019 and \u2018unreliable\u2019 personality because he left their fold.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow come Tinubu did not realize that Chief Ikimi was unreliable and a sell-out who cannot be trusted with the leadership of the APC until when he decided to leave? Did Tinubu not know all these when Ikimi was selected to lead the negotiation for the merger agreement that resulted in the formation of the APC?<\/p>\n

\u201cIs Chief Ikimi the only person in the APC that worked with General Sani Abacha? What about General Muhammadu Buhari who not only took up a very sensitive position in that regime as the Chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) but also gave General Abacha a clean bill of health on allegations of corruption?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe APC has refused to address the issues of lack of internal democracy, religious and ethnic segregation, promotion \u00a0of violence and other entrenched anti-people tendencies raised by those who left its fold. Instead, it has resorted to cheap blackmail, propaganda and character assassination to divert attention. This shows the APC as a party of frustrated politicians attempting to use their mastery of the act of deception to hoodwink Nigerians.”<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, the recent confession by Tinubu that the APC National Convention was manipulated to stop Chief Ikimi, from emerging as the National Chairman clearly underscores the party\u2019s undemocratic stance; the hollowness of its selection processes and the readiness to stifle democratic quest among its members,\u201d the PDP said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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