Attack by aggrieved PDP governors on party leadership aiding APC - Keyamo
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council says aggrieved People's Democratic Party (PDP) governors are doing the "lord's work" with the attack on the party's leadership. opposed.
The council, in a statement issued by one of its spokespersons, Festus Keyamo, said that the PDP governors have revealed that the leadership of the opposition party lacks the capacity to unite it .
The aggrieved PDP governors, led by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, refused to support the party's presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, due to an imbalance in his leadership.
Governors demand the removal of PDP National Chairman Iyorchia Ayu as a condition to support and campaign for Atiku.
They said that a southerner should replace My Ayu who comes from the North as Atiku.
Mr. Wike's recent corruption allegations against Mr. Ayu have thrown the main opposition party into a new crisis.
“Some of the governors can tell you. Will he (Ayu) deny the fact that he did not raise 1 billion naira in Lagos? the money, not from the Lagos state government. The money was given to him in Lagos,” he said.
Within days of Mr. Wike's allegation, several NWC members returned around 120 million naira sent by the party.
The NWC members who returned the money are National Vice President (South West) Olasoji Adagunodo; National Vice President (South), Taofeek Arapaja; National Vice President (South) Dan Orbih and National Women's Leader Stella Affah-Attoe.
Unrepentant PDP
In the statement, Mr. Keyamo said that the PDP had not changed as a political party, adding that Nigerians could no longer be deceived by the party.
“These frank and honest rulers do the work of the Lord for us. Every week we are treated to a new revelation about the PDP crisis and its debauched and thieving nature. A leopard can hardly change its place, which means that the PDP does not repent of its old ways,” he said.
Mr. Keyamo attacked the PDP for abandoning the rotation deal for Atiku's ambition.
He added that the PDP candidate "cannot cede the opportunity to others in the spirit of national inclusiveness and cohesion, having always placed his personal interest above the national interest. These concerns have expressed by some PDP governors themselves."
In the midst of the crisis, the ruling party and its candidate, Bola Tinubu, reached out to the Wike camp to reach political arrangements.
Mr. Tinubu reportedly met with PDP governors in London in August, although the outcome of the meeting remains unknown.
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The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council says aggrieved People's Democratic Party (PDP) governors are doing the "lord's work" with the attack on the party's leadership. opposed.
The council, in a statement issued by one of its spokespersons, Festus Keyamo, said that the PDP governors have revealed that the leadership of the opposition party lacks the capacity to unite it .
The aggrieved PDP governors, led by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, refused to support the party's presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, due to an imbalance in his leadership.
Governors demand the removal of PDP National Chairman Iyorchia Ayu as a condition to support and campaign for Atiku.
They said that a southerner should replace My Ayu who comes from the North as Atiku.
Mr. Wike's recent corruption allegations against Mr. Ayu have thrown the main opposition party into a new crisis.
“Some of the governors can tell you. Will he (Ayu) deny the fact that he did not raise 1 billion naira in Lagos? the money, not from the Lagos state government. The money was given to him in Lagos,” he said.
Within days of Mr. Wike's allegation, several NWC members returned around 120 million naira sent by the party.
The NWC members who returned the money are National Vice President (South West) Olasoji Adagunodo; National Vice President (South), Taofeek Arapaja; National Vice President (South) Dan Orbih and National Women's Leader Stella Affah-Attoe.
Unrepentant PDP
In the statement, Mr. Keyamo said that the PDP had not changed as a political party, adding that Nigerians could no longer be deceived by the party.
“These frank and honest rulers do the work of the Lord for us. Every week we are treated to a new revelation about the PDP crisis and its debauched and thieving nature. A leopard can hardly change its place, which means that the PDP does not repent of its old ways,” he said.
Mr. Keyamo attacked the PDP for abandoning the rotation deal for Atiku's ambition.
He added that the PDP candidate "cannot cede the opportunity to others in the spirit of national inclusiveness and cohesion, having always placed his personal interest above the national interest. These concerns have expressed by some PDP governors themselves."
In the midst of the crisis, the ruling party and its candidate, Bola Tinubu, reached out to the Wike camp to reach political arrangements.
Mr. Tinubu reportedly met with PDP governors in London in August, although the outcome of the meeting remains unknown.
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