By Valentine Amanze
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has raised the alarm that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was strangulating the main opposition party and plotting the way for self-succession of its candidate, President Muhammadu Buhari.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, disclosed this, while responding to a statement by Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, asking the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) to withdraw the certificate of registration it issued to PDP because it lost the 2014 general election.
Mohammed, according to him, said that PDP did not know how to function as an opposition party.
Ologbondiyan also alleged that the major plan of APC was 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 which, 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, which cannot hold even a non-elective convention, will be calling for the withdrawal of PDP’s 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,” he said.
He, however, advised APC and Lai Mohammed to sit by and watch Nigerians collectively return PDP to powers and by so doing restore the nation to the path of unity, national cohesion and economic prosperity come
2019.