The leadership of the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, has given insight on​ why
President Goodluck Jonathan lost the recent
presidential election to the candidate of the
All Progressives Congress, APC,
Muhammadu Buhari.
The spokesperson for the party, Olisa Metuh,
said Monday that the party headquarters was
sidelined during the campaigns, and that
“overzealous” persons were allowed to run a
hate campaign against Mr. Buhari, thereby
making the former military ruler more
popular.
The PDP campaign was characterized by
hate campaigns against Mr. Buhari with
little emphasis on the achievement of Mr.
Jonathan.
Some of the most horrific attacks against Mr.
Buhari came from the president’s wife,
Patience, the governor of Ekiti State, Ayo
Fayose, and the spokesperson for Mr.
Jonathan’s campaign team, Femi Fani-
Kayode.
Mr. Metuh said, “In 2003 President
Obasanjo ran against Odumegwu Ojukwu,
while late President Yar’adua also ran
against him in 2007.
“If the PDP had run its campaign based on
hate speech against the Ikemba Nnewi, he
would have won by a landslide in the whole
of the South East,” he said.
Campaign funds fraud
Against the backdrop of controversy
regarding how campaign funds of the PDP
were spent and recent agitations for the
members of the party’s National Working
Committee, NWC, to resign for leading the
party to failure, the NWC reacted by
insisting that no money was given to it and
that it rather spent its own internally
generated funds to sponsor the candidates of
the party.
Mr. Metuh, who addressed a press
conference at his office on Monday, said the
NWC generated over N9 billion from the sales of nomination
forms to aspirants and used the money to support candidates
of the party.
“We gave the presidential campaign N500 million and also
supported our governorship candidates in the states with
N100 million each, apart from those running for the state
assemblies,” Mr. Metuh said.
The NWC members have been accused of pocketing funds
given to them for party campaigns.
News website, Sahara Reporters, reported weekend that
several members of the NWC received and pocketed N30
million, refusing to work for the victory of the party.
Mr. Metuh said the NWC was never given any money for the
campaigns and denied embezzling such money.
He however admitted that NWC members received the said
N30 Million, which he said included their housing, furniture
and other allowances that have not been past for the past two
years.
“We state clearly that we have not been given any money,
rather this NWC generated billions of naira from the sale of
forms from where we funded our candidates for governorship
and state assembly elections in all the states of the federation
in addition to funds released to key leaders including NWC
and BoT members to prosecute the campaigns in their
various areas,” he said.
Mr. Metuh said the NWC is willing and ready to make its
account public in line with the Freedom of Information law.
He also said President Goodluck Jonathan was “directly
involved” in the decision to disburse the N30 million funds
to the NWC as well as BOT members.
Mr. Metuh accused “fifth columnists” of trying to create
crisis in the party with a view to afford elected officials an
opportunity to defect from the party in line with a recent
Supreme Court ruling.
He said the NWC members were running the party under
difficult conditions for over a year with no help from any
quarters.
“Where were these people when we lacked funds to run the
party for over one year. We could not even buy newspapers
or diesel for our generators,” he said.
Crisis over
PDP spokesperson however, said the crisis generated over
the use of campaign funds is over following a meeting of all
parties concerned Sunday.
He said the meeting, which President Jonathan chaired,
succeeded in finding an amicable solution to the problem.
“We are happy to announce that the leader of our party,
President Jonathan, the PDP governors and other key
stakeholders of our party including governors and
legislators-elect are deeply concerned about this
development and have intervened to ensure the desired
stability in our party,” he said.
Mr. Metuh said with the crisis over, the party is now poised
to reclaim the presidency in 2019 and that there are no more
talks of any resignation of NWC members.
“There is no crisis in the national leadership of the PDP. The
National Working Committee under the Chairmanship of
Ahmadu Adamu Mu’azu is duly elected and is fully in
control of the administration of the party until the expiration
of its tenure in March 2016 in line with the provisions of the
constitution of our great party.
“We are not only in office, we are in power,” he said.
Mr. Metuh urged all PDP members across the country to
close ranks and work together with their leaders at all levels
and make themselves partners in progress in the rebuilding
the party.
“What we need now is to eschew all personal and private
agenda and join forces to reinvent our party for the task
ahead,” he said.


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Seun, Lalasticlala

FTC. I smell front page.

I love transformation
I hate "change"

OREMUSSANCTUS:
I love transformation
I hate "change"

Elections are over, so get a life!

geniusss:


Elections are over, so get a life!

Noted!
I love transformation
I hate "change"
Quote me to blast me and ya will never make it in like

It is not hate campaigns.....it is freedom of the press.....fools

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Too late

OREMUSSANCTUS:

[s]Noted!
I love transformation
I hate "change"
Quote me to blast me and ya will never make it in like[/s]

my bros!

na pesin get the wrapper wey goat dey chop!

We are begging you to stop this madness before e push you enter market and the tori go ba je!

abeg that N50 per post wey TAN dey pay u before GEJ lost the election wey be the main reason why u dey cry on every thread on Nairaland, we are begging you to stop the cry!

We have decided on paying you N70 per post- any post that you make so long as its devoid of lamentations on the dead of PDP - even if na just fullstop you type we go still pay you the N70!

even temitemi, titt, mogidi, serverusanus, ozoigbondu, nzeadachie, old per chukwudi, eyepencil, cleverdumbmind, candle firefire, bacanister and the other N50 per post crew have stop crying and are now looking for alternative means of survival, but only you have your case defied all medications! - even the very dreaded and effective jegaquin have failed woefully in your case!

pls help us to help cure you by first accepting the fact that GEJ is heading back to otueke by may 29th then maybe from their your condition will begin to improve.

[size=15pt]ONCE AGAIN, PLS HELP US TO HELP CURE YOU OF YOUR AILMENT! [/size]

As dey take lay their bed na so them go follow lay on top am..chopNchop""who come dey blame who..I dey yawn sef

Olisah Metuh forgot"Born throway by mama peace"

No need crying over spilt milk,see you guys in 2019.