PDP Crisis: The Ruling Party Will Never Recover – APC

PDP Crisis: The Ruling Party Will Never Recover – APCThe All Progressives Congress (APC) has declared that the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is beyond reconciliation.

Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the APC Interim National Publicity Secretary, stated this in Lagos, on September 28, 2013, Friday.

When the Secretary declared in his speech that the “PDP has broken into pieces,” a thunderous “Amen!” greeted his words.

Lai Mohammed addressed a congregation that attended the 8th edition of Town Hall meeting and graduation ceremony of Youth Empowerment and Skills Acquisition Scheme organised by the representative of Lagos-Central senatorial district, Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu.

Lai Mohammed described the two events that occurred on 31st of July and 31st of August this year, as a watershed in the history of Nigeria.

He recalled that on July 31, 2013, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the birth of the APC while exactly a month later, seven governors and other political bigwigs within the PDP staged a walk out from the party’s special convention in Abuja and announced the “New PDP”.

The August 31 saga, he said, marked the end of PDP’s regime in Nigeria because that would be the first time in the history of the country that seven governors and other party’s stalwarts will walk out on a sitting President.

The governors that staged the walkout included Alhaji Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), Rabiu Kwankwanso (Kano), Aliyu Babangida (Niger), Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa) and Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers).

It would be recalled that efforts by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, ex- military dictate ruler, General Ibrahim Babangida, ex- Vice-President, Chief Alex Ekwueme, PDP ex-National Chairmen, PDP Chairman Board of Trustee, Chief Anthony Anenih and other leaders to resolve the crisis are still in vain.

The Kawu Baraje-led faction of the PDP threatened to form a new party or align with another party if the Bamanga Tukur-faction did not yield to its demands.

The ‘New PDP’ demanded the sacking of Alhaji Bamanga Tukur; adding that President Jonathan forget his re-election ambition. It also demanded the Nigeria Governors Forum and Rivers State crises should be resolved; and the “harassment” of governors by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission should be stopped.