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  • APC’s manifesto unrealistic – PDP

    APC’s manifesto unrealistic – PDP

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the manifesto of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as unrealistic, saying it is meant to deceive and misdirect the electorates.

    According to the ruling party, the opposition’s promise to pay N5, 000 monthly stipend each to 25 million poor Nigerians would amount to N125 billion monthly and N1.5 trillion every year.

    At a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, said this cannot be achieved, given the poor state of the nation’s economy and dwindling oil revenue.

    “What is baffling is that the APC knows fully well that this is not only unrealistic but also impracticable in a nation with an estimated budget of N4.69 trillion comprising recurrent and capital expenditures yet they continue to dish it out to unsuspecting citizens in a clear bid to mislead.

    “Since its formation about two years ago, the APC has introduced and sustained an unfortunate political streak sustained majorly by lies, character assassination, false alarm, wild allegations, and lately visual simulation, all in the desperation to deceive and misdirect the judgment of the electorates.

    “We have with us an opposition party, which has been deploying all manner of schemes to derail and compromise the electoral process. Today, if the APC is not instigating violence or threatening democracy and our very existence as a nation, the party is busy procuring criminal hi-tech to hack into INEC’s data-base or clone the Permanent Voters Card (PVC).

    “The next day, the same party would connive with some unscrupulous electoral officers to deny non-indigenes in some select states their PVCs while busy making bogus promises to the electorates,” Metuh said.

    The PDP also faulted what it described as the opposition’s promise to create 740, 000 direct jobs in each of the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory within one year, with one million jobs for Igbo youths within the same period.

    Continuing, Metuh said: “The APC has also promised to provide free education, daily free meals for millions of Nigerian school children, free tertiary education, free health care and free houses to Nigerians. The opposition knows too well that this is unrealistic yet they prefer to brandish falsehood.

    “The APC should explain to Nigerians how they would fulfill their promises with the prevailing 40 per cent drop in national income and dwindling oil price in the international market. “

     

  • ‘APC ‘ll win in 30 states’

    ‘APC ‘ll win in 30 states’

    Omorede Osifo is an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain in Edo State and a member of its Presidential Campaign Committee. She told DELE ANOFI in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), that APC will win 30 of the 36 states during the presidential election.

    You have been working with the APC at the National level. What are the chances of the party in the general elections?

    I see the APC sweeping more states than we currently have. As of now, we have 16 states. After this coming election, I see us sweeping almost 30 states and winning the presidential election. From my interaction with people, everybody is yearning for a change and they see our presidential candidate as the change that Nigeria needs. We need somebody that will be able to stop all the things that are happening, including corruption and insecurity. Nigeria is at a point where we need to make it work. Nigeria is not working. I believe Gen. Muhammadu Buhari is coming to make things straight.

    But, Buhari could not raise the half the amount raised by President Jonathan…

    Politics is a not all about money. In the local government elections that took place here in Edo, there were candidates that spent more money, but those who spent less won. Sometimes, people look beyond money. They will take the money and vote for who they want; they will vote for what will make the society work. We have gone beyond money politics. The Presidency is not for sale. Buhari wants to come and serve. He has not stolen money before. He is an honest man. People are contributing to the APC campaign before they have notice that this is the change. Anybody can spend millions because he is in charge of the federation, but that does not mean he will win. We are not worried about the PDP’s money. We will win with our strength.

    Many thought you would defect to another party, when you left office. What informed your decision to remain in the APC?

    I am not somebody that jump from one party to another. I was approached, but I refused to move. I believe I am in a party that I believe in its ideology. I will not let my personal issues with anybody change my mind about the party I believe in, I have confidence in. Sometimes, you don’t take decision when you are angry to avoid taking a wrong decision. I have always learnt to be calm when things happen. I look at the issues. I don’t see why I should leave the APC to go back to the PDP we all started years ago. The APC is a party that believes in the good of the people. The APC is interested in Nigeria and making things work in the country. I saw in the APC what would move my state forward. I am not interested in leaving the party for another party. This is a party I am well known both at the state level and the national level. I don’t see why I should I leave a house I have built. This house is better than other parties.

    Don’t you think the television adverts by the PDP in Edo will sway victory in the direction of the party?

    Edo people will vote for the APC. In politics, people will make up stories. Expect anything in politics. The PDP wants to make sure they win. They are campaigning aggressively, but that will not make the people change their mind. The people know what they want. They know that the PDP has been there for a long time, they know what the APC-controlled states have achieved. Nobody thought Edo State would be like this. Go to Lagos and Kano and see changes. The APC has been able to change a lot of things in the states they controlled. We have had over 80 per cent success in what we have done in different states. I don’t think people would be carried away by advert, but let the people decide who they want.

    Why do you think Buhari will win?

    I know that Buhari has all the credentials to make a good President. I believe that when you have a sellable candidate, he has already won an election for you. It is the calibre of candidates that wins elections. Buhari has a good track record. He has been there before. He has done well. We need sanity in Nigeria. I know Buhari will make things work. Things are not alright now in this country. Anybody apart from Jonathan is what everybody wants. An average Nigerian wants change. Our people are impatient. Buhari will not encourage stealing. He will create the right path for Nigeria. Whoever comes after him will know Buhari has set the standard. We need a firm and discipline person that will move Nigeria to the next level. Four years of Buhari will take Nigeria to the next level.

    Do you see more women participating in politics?

    The men still need to encourage women in politics. The APC gave women free ticket to contest. Having gotten the free ticket, the women have to work hard. Politics has been a man’s world for so long. Women have to work harder. Elections are different from appointments. Any woman going for an election should work harder. They should campaign harder and sell their credentials.

     

     

    What were your days as a Commissioner like?

    I pioneered the first cultural exchange between Nigeria and Germany. I was responsible for making Igue Festival a national festival. Bendel Insurance was a huge problem. There was a mis-communication problem I met. They were at the lowest peak of football. The state government was able to pay seven months. We worked hard to rebrand the team. I go to watch their training and boost their morale during matches

     

     

  • Kokori: Urhobo oppose Jonathan for humiliating us

    Kokori: Urhobo oppose Jonathan for humiliating us

    THE Urhobo in Delta State will not vote for President Goodluck Jonathan in next month’s election because he humiliated the race in the last six years he was in office, it was learnt yesterday.

    The decision to dump the President was reportedly taken because he did not compensate the race for the one million votes they gave him in the 2011 elections.

    The State All Progressives Congress (APC) spoke yesterday when its leaders visited the Acting President-General of the integrity faction of the Urhobo Progress Union (UPU), Chief Tuesday Onoge, at Ekpan.

    APC’s Board of Trustees (BoT) member, Chief Ovie Frank Kokori, accused Jonathan of corrupting the sacked UPU President-General, Chief Joe Omene.

    The visit was meant to thank the UPU leadership for endorsing APC’s candidate, Chief O’tega Emerhor.

    Kokori, a former leader of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), noted that Onoge saved the Urhobo from shame and embarrassment when he stood for integrity and truth.

    He said Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate, Chief Great Ogboru, and his party, were not on the agenda of the Uvwiamughe Declaration.

    The former union leader condemned Omene for endorsing Ogboru.

    He said: “The next time Urhobo want to choose leaders, we must check their resumes. Chief Onoge is now acting as the integrity of the Urhobo. In Nigeria today, we have only two parties: you are either with the conservatives or flow with the movement of change. The inclusion of Great Ogboru and LP was alien to the Uvwiamughe Declaration. I felt he was a man like me: my word is my bond.

  • Okrika attack planned to eliminate Dakuku, says APC

    Okrika attack planned to eliminate Dakuku, says APC

    AS the police investigative panel on last week’s Okrika violence begins to sit in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has compiled about 150 electoral violations  against the party by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

    The party alleged that the Okrika violence was planned to eliminate its governorship candidate, Dr Dakuku Peterside.

    In a statement yesterday by the media aide to the APC Chairman, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, the party said the Chairman of the APC’s committee, Prince Peter Odika, compiled the violations.

    The statement said: “The committee was able to list 150 sins committed against APC by PDP leadership and members in the course of the ongoing campaign for the 2015 elections.

    “These sins revolve around attacks against APC faithful, billboards and local government secretariat by the misguided PDP elements in Rivers State, ahead of the March/April 2015 general elections.”

    Odika, who is also the Rivers State APC Deputy Chairman, said the report should be treated with the urgency it deserved.

    The committee chairman said this would prevent the PDP from plunging the state into a crisis that would not only send more APC members and other innocent persons to their earlier graves but also truncate the nation’s nascent democracy.

    The Okrika violence, which was on top of the list, resulted in the death of a policeman.

    APC alleged that it was “was principally targeted to eliminate Dr. Peterside”.

    APC State Chairman Davies Ikanya, who received the report, assured that it would be implemented.

    He said the report “would be sent to the United Nations (UN), Amnesty International (AI), the Economic Community of west African States (ECOWAS) and other major international bodies without delay”.

    Ikanya hailed Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Suleiman Abba for directing a probe into the Okrika violence.

    The APC chairman prayed that those behind the attack should be arrested promptly, “if not, our lives may not be safe anymore”.

  • Shekau order: APC alleges plot to blackmail Buhari

    Shekau order: APC alleges plot to blackmail Buhari

    Insurgents ‘posing as women in Baga’

    THERE is a plot to frame up Gen. Muhammadu Buhari as a Boko Haram sponsor, the APC Presidential Camapaign Organisation (APCPCO) said yesterday.

    The proof lies in the Federal Government’s order to troops to capture alive Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau.

    A fake Shekau, said the APCPCO, will be made to state that he is working for Buhari, the APC’s presidential candidate.

    But, said the organisation, it is all blackmail because:

    •the military has claimed several times that Shekau has been killed; and

    •Gen. Buhari was attacked in Kaduna by suspected Boko Haram bombers who killed some of his guards.

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) postponed the general elections from February 14 and 28 to March 28 and April 11 because the Service Chiefs said they could not gurantee security. They needed six weeks, they said, to wipe out the Boko Haram insurgency. Shekau issued a video tape in which he lampooned the plan to defeat him.

    The APC campaign said in a statement signed by its Director, Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, that the directive to soldiers to capture Shekau alive is a ploy by the government to claim glory for winning the war on terrorism.

    He said that “the charge to the military, that they should catch Shekau alive by the President in the last 24 hours lends credence to the report that indeed a fake Shekau is about being created.”

    The statement argued that the profile of the leader of the insurgents as a dedicated ideologue presupposes that the man is not likely to allow himself to be caught alive.

    “It is both contradictory to the ideology he preaches and the psychological profile that the world has of him that Shekau would allow himself to be caught alive,” it added.

    According to the statement, the attack in Kaduna on Gen. Buhari was seen and believed by most Nigerians as perpetrated by the Boko Haram. “The police that is constitutionally empowered to investigate and report on such incidents has not contradicted the widespread belief that this was a Boko Haram attack,” APCPCO said, adding:

    “The view of the APC is that it does not make sense for General Muhammadu Buhari to be in league with, or be associated in any way with people who have set out to kill him.”

    Shehu advised the government to listen to the various counsel from international bodies and lately by religious leaders that campaigns must be about issues and not maligning people, adding that “unfounded allegations linking the opposition to insurgency amounts to leaving the issues to pursue personal attacks as warned against, barely 24 hours ago by leaders of the Catholic Community through Arch. Bishop John Onaiyekan”.

    The APC Campaign said it was shocked, as other Nigerians by the President’s admission in a weekend newspaper interview that he had underestimated the Boko Haram challenge, arguing that any leader in that circumstance should not consider himself fit to seek re-election.

    Quoting President Jonathan’s recent confession that he underestimated Boko Haram, the APC presidential campaign said the admission was a direct evidence that the President has nothing to offer and must bow to the wind of change.

    President Jonathan is out of touch with the realities of the lethal challenges posed by global terrorism, including Boko Haram, which is believed to be affiliated to Al-Qaeda global terror network, Shehu said.

    Malam Shehu maintained that for any President to under-estimate terrorism, it means that he doesn’t take any national challenges seriously, including health, poverty, unemployment, power, education, infrastructure and other issues.

    He emphasised that with his admission, President Jonathan has passed a vote of no confidence on himself and his administration, adding that his confession underlines the imperative for change.

    Shehu said a President admitting his incompetence in tackling a mortal challenge to the security of Nigerians, he has no business seeking re-election or looking for excuses to delay elections.

  • Fayose under fire over death wish for candidate

    Fayose under fire over death wish for candidate

    Amosun, others condemn action

    Governor: I’m not on his trail

    Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose came under fire yesterday as eminent Nigerians criticised his continous death wish for All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.

    Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun, Senator Ayo Arise, Ekiti State APC and others had harsh words for the governor.

    But despite the criticism of his hate message, Fayose yesterday in Abuja inissted that Gen. Buhari is receiving treatment in a London hospital.

    Amosun wondered how some people in the name of politics could descend to a ridiculously low level of wishing Gen. Buhari dead.

    Amosun, who travelled to London with Buhari and returned on Sunday, wondered how a “sane person” could wish his fellow human being ill or dead , adding that it is even a “disgrace to the Yoruba race” for a Yoruba to indulge in such.

    The governor, who spoke with reporters shortly after a meeting with representatives of over 57 Community Development Associations(CDAs) and Cooperative Societies at the June 12 Cultural Centre, Kuto, Abeokuta, said “Buhari is alive, hale and hearty”.

    The APC presidential candidate is agile and healthier than the “character” behind the spate of ill-will and death wishes against him, he said.

    The governor urged genuine lovers of democracy and humanity to call those wishing the former Head of State dead to order, stressing that the strange practice did not only go against tradition but does not have basis in Christianity and Islam.

    Amosun said: “Let me say this is a big shame. We are Yoruba. It is an unwritten rule they would say that even if in different pàrties they are not fighting, they want to represent our people. How can a sane person wish somebody else dead? Why? It has never happened, it is a disgrace.

    “For your information, Buhari is even stronger than the character saying the man is ill, maybe because of his military background.

    “The man is hale and hearty for his age. It is like Baba Obasanjo;  this is  a man that is very agile and you just have to tell him slow down to catch up with, just like some people will tell me to slow down.

    “We went to about five places. Even when I went to Ben Television, I told him, ‘sir, you can’t follow me; you have to go home;’  he was ready to follow me even in the cold.

    “The man was working round and you saw the photoshop they are using; they sre saying a lot of rubbish. That is not politics;  it has descended to an abysmal level. All lovers of democracy and humanity should call them to order.

    “Politics will end one day and where will such people be? I think they are descending to a level that is unheard of, that negates good living.”

    Senator Arise, a PDP chieftain, who spoke on a Channels Television breakfast programme monitored in Ado-Ekiti, said although Fayose is entitled to his opinion, he is not speaking for the party.

    To Arise, who represented Ekiti North in the Senate between 2007 and 2011, the hate campaign mounted by Fayose is needless as all what is needed is for PDP members to work for the victory of President Goodluck Jonathan at the March 28 presidential contest.

    He said: “Our party has come out strongly to say that Fayose is not speaking for the party. So, I won’t say he is not entitled to his opinion at this level.

    “But, left to me as an individual, I disagree with him on this. I believe we don’t need such in the PDP. All we need is to work hard and campaign for Mr. President to win the election fair and square.”

    In a statement on Monday signed by its Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, the Ekiti APC accused Fayose of diverting the attention of Nigerians from his alleged fraudulent victory as revealed in the audio tape leak.

    It said the revelations in the tape would not be eclipsed by his anti-Buhari campaign antics, stressing that the money the governor is spending in his hate campaign could have been channelled into productive activities for the benefit of Ekiti people.

    The statement said: “He knows with Gen. Buhari as the President, that will be the end of impunity and fraud through which he was declared the governor.

    “He knows he can’t survive the revelations contained in the tape when Buhari becomes the President. That is why he wants General Buhari dead. We know Fayose very well. He will go to any length in his hate campaign, wishing Buhari dead. But he will not succeed.

    “Theý spirits of Nigerians that desire change in their lives are stronger than Fayose’s selfish spirit whose only wish among millions of Ekiti is to build an empire around himself with stupendous wealth while Ekiti people beg him for crumbs from his table.

    “Governor Fayose is taking his hate campaign against General Buhari to the level of personal agenda far and above the collective agenda of Ekiti people for good governance and development of the state.

    “If Fayose had taken the issues of development seriously as he is doing in his hate campaign against Buhari, the effects could have been felt in many areas that are germane to the state development,”the APC added.

    It said: “Fayose is busy on two fronts. One, in Ekiti, he keeps telling the people and workers in particular about the debts profile and the difficulty that he will face in paying workers’ salary, starting from March while saying nothing about his development plans for the people.

    “Outside giving Ekiti people chicken and rice, he doesn’t have any development plan.

    “At the national level, he is busy with anti-Buhari campaign, wishing the APC presidential candidate dead and completely unable to divorce his personal interest of political survival from the collective interest of Ekiti people for a purpose-driven government that caters for the general good of the people.

    “We have no doubt in our minds that Fayose needs medical attention.”

    Oyo State chapter of the Buhari Campaign Vanguard said Fayose’s  “antecedents and precedents constitute serious affront to human dignity”.

    Speaking in Oyo town, the State Deputy Co-ordinator for the Vanguard, Chief  Segun Taiwo said: “How on earth could a right-thinking and normal human being who is not a human type be wishing his fellow being dead because of politics.

    “Is Fayose God? Can he tell us when he will die, where and how? Who is Fayose to determine future aspiration of his fellow being? It is even a taboo in Yoruba culture to wish anybody dead.”

    Fayose denied yesterday the reports that he had sent some people on Gen. Buhari’s trail.

    He spoke at a news conference in Abuja on the health of Gen Buhari, saying he is receiving treatment in a London hospital.

    He said: “At Buhari’s age, I don’t need to run after him. My prayer is that he live long. Buhari is old even to govern a state. He is frail, old and not strong to run the affairs of this country.

    “General Buhari is not well, he is sick in the hospital. This is not personal. I am not against the North. I am not against the South. Our leaders should show us their medical records.

    “I am saying that Nigeria needs a healthy leader who will be able to address the problems of this country. Even in advanced countries, those wishing to lead present their medical records because they know the amount of energy to be deployed.”

    Fayose also spoke on the interview Gen. Buhari granted a London television station, All Eyes on Africa, which he said was conducted in Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja room.

    Also, the governor admitted that he participated in the June 20, last year Ekiti governorship election rigging meeting, secretly recorded in an audio tape by Captain Sagir Koli.

    He said: “Yes, the voice in that audio tape is mine. If you listened very well, you would have heard me complaining about attempts by the APC to rig the election,” Fayose said.

    He had earlier denied ever been at such a meeting.

  • APC to Jonathan: courting Yoruba monarchs won’t save you

    APC to Jonathan: courting Yoruba monarchs won’t save you

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Southwest has told President Goodluck Jonathan that his last minute “romance” with the region’s monarchs will not rescue him.

    In a statement by the Director of Media and Publicity in the zone, Ayo Afolabi, the party explained the reason Jonathan would lose in the Southwest.

    According to the APC, Yoruba voted for him in 2011, following their conviction that he was a better candidate but that they were disappointed by his poor performance, particularly in the area of good governance.

    “The strategic question the President and his campaign managers should have tried to answer before engaging on the rash moves is: how many of such desperate and impromptu meetings were needed before Yoruba people voted for him in 2011?

    “How much did President Jonathan spend to get Yoruba votes in 2011 and why should he think money will save him now?

    “All other regions extracted several promises from President Jonathan in the race to the 2011 elections except the Southwest, which voted based on its convictions and commitment to justice and good governance.

    “However, despite getting Yoruba votes effortlessly, what did the region get in return? In the last five years, the Jonathan administration has shown unbearable contempt for the region and its people and their values, especially in the attempt to adulterate their leadership values.

    “For instance, many top Yoruba people in the civil service have been the victim of Jonathan administration’s nepotism.

    “Under no compulsion, no Yoruba will be proud of those President Jonathan has imposed as leaders representing Yoruba people in various capacities whether as governor, minister, or party leaders.

    “From all intent and purposes, governance has stopped in Ekiti State as the governor has been functioning more as a campaign manager with the resources of Ekiti people than as a governor. Ekiti people deserve better than they are getting.

    “The Southwest APC is confident that Yoruba monarchs and voters are conscious of the implications of such Greek Gift and as the bastion of democratic justice and good governance, they will vote true to their cultural identity that loathes tyranny, corruption, and nepotism.

    “In fact, activities in the Presidency in the last few weeks have confirmed that Jonathan did not realise the need for governance, until it was evident that Nigerians have embraced the opportunity of change offered by the APC.

    “Nigerians deserve better and they will use their votes to pass a vote of no confidence on the wasteful administration on March 28.”

  • PDP, APC, APGA governorship candidates boycott debate

    PDP, APC, APGA governorship candidates boycott debate

    •Ahmed: I had engagement

    Only the governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Dr. Mike Omotosho, yesterday honoured the governorship election debate in Kwara State.

    Other parties, whose governorship candidates were invited, included the All Progressives Congress (APC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).

    But the APC governorship candidate, Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, gave reasons for his absence.

    The Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Media and Communications, Dr. Muideen Akorede, said the governor was absent, following his prior engagement.

    He added: “The governor loved to be at the event, but for prior state engagement. He is desirous of interacting with the group anytime, to highlight his achievements in the last four years and what his plans are if re-elected.”

    The debate, held in Ilorin, was organised by the Kwara Coalition of Business and Professional Associations (KWACOBPA), in collaboration with the Nigeria Elections Debate Group, Centre for International Private Enterprise and International Republican Institute.

    It was assessed by a moderator and two panelists.

    Expatiating on his blueprint for the state, Dr. Omotosho bemoaned Nigeria’s over dependence on oil, saying such a development was dangerous for the economy.

    He promised, if elected, to place premium on the welfare of people with disability.

    “We in LP have constituted a lobby group to prevail on the President to pass the Social Disability Bill waiting for his assent into law. The bill has already been passed by the two chambers of the National Assembly,” the pharmacist-turned- politician said.

    On education, he said: “We have a blueprint to focus on qualitative education. We shall encourage deserving students by sponsoring them to tertiary institutions. To a large extent, we shall abolish the indigene and non- indigene disparity in the payment of school fees.”

    The Chairman of KWACOBPA, Chief Hezekiah Adediji, said the debate “is to give candidates the opportunity to address a large audience, discuss their programmes and respond to questions.

    “This debate is meant to promote politics of issues, as against thuggery and violence. I implore our candidates to be good sportsmen and the audience to be truly non-participatory.”

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Ex-Ohaneze president backs Buhari

    The former President- General of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Dr. Dozie Ikedife, has endorsed the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.

    Ikedife, the ex-presidential liaison officer during former President Shehu Shagari’s administration in 1979, said the APC candidate possessed the qualities to give Nigeria the leadership it deserved.

    Ikedife, who briefed reporters yesterday in Nnewi, described those who questioned Gen. Buhari’s certificate as being naïve.

    He said the APC standard-bearer, while serving in the military, attended courses that were equivalent to today’s master’s degree.

    Ikedife said with his 56 years medical practice and experience, he vouched that Buhari had mental and physical capacity to lead the country.

  • Ex-Anambra governor Mbadinuju dumps PDP

    Ex-Anambra governor Mbadinuju dumps PDP

    Former Anambra State Governor Dr. Chinwoke Mbadinuju has said the Boko Haram insurgency is part of God’s judgment Nigeria.

    He said the insurgency would not abate until the country embraced justice.

    Mbadinuju, who spoke at a news conference to announce his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC), said Sodom and Gomorrah might be a child’s play if Nigeria did not tread softly, adding that it was clear from what was happening in the country that “injustice begets corruption, no matter how it is painted”.

    The ex-governor, who said he is a founding member of the PDP in Anambra State, noted that the injustice perpetrated by the PDP denied him a second term in 2003 although he won the governorship ticket on the three occasions the primary election was held.

    He said it became necessary for him to join the APC because it was the right thing to do, adding that “while the APC has proven itself as a promising party of present and future, we can all see glaringly that everything good about the PDP has since vanished. The tearing of the PDP membership card last week by no less a person than former President Olusegun Obasanjo is a symbolic attestation to this truth”.

    The former governor, who went down memory lane on how unfair the PDP had been to him, said despite working for the success of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011, he was never carried along, adding that about 10 memos he sent to the President were never acknowledged.