Former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kola Ologbondiyan, has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is generating crisis within the main opposition party to ensure that opposition parties don’t participate in national elections.
The PDP chieftain, who spoke on Arise TV yesterday, stated that the involvement of Nyesom Wike in the government of the APC has created a road that can lead to the collapse of the party.
He said, “Sometimes if you look at the whole melee, you’ll see that all these things are being generated to make sure that the party doesn’t have its cohesion, it doesn’t have its unity so that the people who are in government, the party in government will be able to suppress other opposition parties in a manner that they’ll be reduced to the level of just contesting election at the sub-national and they won’t be able to participate in a national elections.”
Speaking further, he said, “On the issue of external assault from the APC or the principals in the APC, you’ll recall that at every situation in which we have discussed PDP, on this platform in which I have been involved, I have always made the position known that there are attempts to reduce the PDP to a branch or an arm of the APC.
“The involvement of the former presidential aspirant on the platform of the party and the current minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, in the government of the APC has created a road that can lead to the collapse of the PDP.”
On the question as to the prospect for the party considering the numerous issues, He said, “I think the question is very troubling. I’m saying it’s troubling because the way and manner in which the issues are being taken, they’re not in conformity with the precedents, history and the constitutionality of the PDP.
“Take the issue of the acting national chairman, he became acting national chairman by virtue of the fact that Section 47 (6) of the constitution says that you can because there was a vacuum. It also says that when the people bring forth a replacement, you’ll vacate but the whole thing has been so messed up in a manner that you don’t even know where to take off from.
“Look at the issue of the national secretary, 85 percent of the people of the South East will tell you that they have nominated Sunday Ude-Okoye and they’ve gotten a court judgment to back it up. But what do you find? Like I said earlier, judicial gymnastics have thrown things anyhow and at the end of the day, these issues are not resolved.”
