PDP derides allaince
The People’s Democratic Party, on Tuesday, described the
alliance talks between the Congress for Progressive Change and the Action
Congress of Nigeria as a mere roadshow which was bound to fail.
According to Ahmed Alkali, national publicity secretary of the
PDP in a statement: “As for the ACN and CPC, we wish them well as they continue
in the wilderness of alliance. If these two political parties could not allow
their followers an ordinary choice of who flies the flag in their respective
parties, we dare say that they have nothing to offer to Nigerians as far as
democracy is concerned.”
Mr. Alkali said that the party was not surprised when the ACN
national secretary, Lawal Shuaibu, announced a few days ago that talks had
collapsed, adding that he (Mr. Shuaibu) was merely echoing what Nigerians
already knew.
“It is all a question of one party trying to lord it over the
other,” he said. “This again did not come as a surprise as none of the two
political parties has ever made any pretences as to how greater its selfish
interest is to that of the nation.”
According to him, “While the ACN, in perpetual indulgence of
name change, could not after all change in its hatred for internal democracy
and democracy as witnessed in the charade that went for its congresses and
primaries, with impunity and imposition as the order of the day, the CPC with
its cult heroism has been devastated by internal divisions.”
Mr. Alkali said that the conduct of the PDP primaries has re-affirmed the
party’s position as the only sure vehicle for the entrenchment and growth of
democracy in Nigeria.
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