The Peoples Democratic Party says the former Vice President,
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and other aggrieved members of the party are ingrates.
The PDP also said it is not moved by the recent moves of the All Progressives Congress to woo some of its governors into the fold of the opposition party.
PDP National Secretary, Prof. Wale Oladipo, stated these on Saturday while speaking at the Reunion Rally organised by the Ogun State chapter of the party for its members in Ogun West Senatorial District in Idiroko, Ipokia Local Government Area, where about 6,000 members of the ruling All Progressives Congress and the Labour Party defected to the party.
Oladipo, who was reacting to the reported claims by Abubakar that it took him and his allies only four months to hatch the plot that resulted in the current crisis in the PDP, argued that the former vice president had bitten the finger that fed him.
The PDP national secretary said it was “unthinkable” that Abubakar and his allies, who had benefitted so much from their membership of the ruling party, would not only turn their back on their benefactor but also plot its downfall.
He however stressed that contrary to their expectations, the PDP would not disintegrate, adding that the party had left Abubakar and his allies to Nigerians and God to judge.
Oladipo said, “As far as the South West is concerned, you can see that PDP is waxing stronger by the day, particularly since the last mini congress of the South West that we had in Ibadan. I don’t want to over-dramatise the situation. The PDP has not fallen and will not fall. But as for what His Excellency, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, said, I would still love to believe that he was misquoted. In case he was not misquoted, and if we believe what the press reported that the plot to split the PDP was hatched actually four months before our last mini-convention, that will be most unfortunate for someone of his status within the party.
“But you’ll recollect that there was a time he was away from the PDP and he came back. So, I don’t want to join issues with an elderly Nigerian but for people who have had the opportunity to benefit from this party to be plotting against the party, I think I will leave it for Nigerians to just decide what they think of such human beings. If God had been merciful to you through the PDP to become a governor, to become a vice president of this country and if you still believe that the best way to repay the party is to plot its downfall, God is not like us, His ways are not our ways. God doesn’t compensate goodness with evil. I’m sure PDP will not fail, PDP will not split, PDP will not fall, PDP will move from strength to strength. PDP will continue to provide purposeful leadership for this country, particularly under the able leadership of our transformation president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.”
The PDP National Secretary also said that the party was not bothered by the recent intensified efforts being made by the APC to woo some of its governors.
He described the APC as a party that lacked any clear-cut ideology. “If these people (APC) want to poach our governors, it means that they are not serious; that they feel that they are inadequate. We don’t need to poach, we’ll take our case to the good people of this country. Our president is performing, we are sure that his performance will earn him another term in office. I’m sure that when he would have run his two terms that the PDP will continue to rule this country for the foreseeable future. So, we are not moved by that. All those governors who are authentic PDP members will only receive them out of courtesy and send them away. But those who want to go with them, if there is any who want to go with them, goodluck to them,” Oladipo said.
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