The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has refused to hang the official portrait of President Muhammadu Buhari at the party’s national secretariat, checks by The PUNCH have revealed.

Over 100 days after the President assumed office, the PDP has yet to hang his portrait at any of the offices in its Wadata House national secretariat, located at Zone 5, Abuja.

The party has also said it would never put Buhari’s portraits on its walls though it has removed that of the former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, who ruled on the platform of the PDP.

“We will never hang his portrait in this office, because President Buhari is not known to our party. He is not a leader of our party and therefore we will never put his portrait here. We are a political party, very partisan and therefore, we are not going to hide that,” National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh, told our correspondent on the telephone on Tuesday.

Jonathan was also the presidential candidate of the former ruling party during the last general election but he was defeated by Buhari, who was the presidential candidate of the opposition All Progressives Congress.

The defeat was the first to be suffered by the PDP since the return of democracy in 1999.

Before now, the party has always been hanging the portraits of all the Presidents at the party’s reception area as well as the National Executive Committee and National Working Committee halls within the secretariat.

Metuh said the APC also did not hang the portrait of Jonthan in its offices before the former President was defeated in the March 28 election.

“Can you find out if the APC had the portrait of former President Jonathan in their office before he was defeated? That is just it,” he told our correspondent.

When asked whether the party was taking its own pound of flesh, Metuh said no but that since Buhari “is not a member of our party, we won’t put his portrait here.”

The APC National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Lai Mohammed, expressed shock at Metuh’s comment.

“This is ridiculous and we have no comment. Let Nigerians judge the PDP on this matter,” Mohammed said.

He said the PDP spokesman had a shallow understanding of the concept of opposition politics.

Meanwhile, work has stopped at the new secretariat of the PDP, located in the Central Business District, Abuja.

Investigations by our correspondent indicated that contractors handling the project were only doing skeletal jobs at the site.

When our correspondent visited the site on Tuesday, there was no visible job being done at the site.

It was gathered that the cost of the project was put at N11.5bn when it was awarded some years ago. At completion, the building is expected to have 12 floors, with two other floors serving as the car park.

The party had claimed that the project was being financed from levies and contributions from members.

When a fund-raising dinner was organised a few years ago, the party was able to realise about N5bn, and the project, which started more than four years ago, was to be delivered in 126 weeks.

The former National Chairman of the party, under whose leadership the project commenced, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, had then said that the complex, when completed, would strengthen the capacity of the PDP to discharge its role effectively in Africa.

The party had claimed on January 5, 2015 that it was going to spend part of the N21.8bn it realised from the party’s fund-raising on the party’s secretariat.

A former Minister for Information and the Chairman of the party’s Fund-raising Committee, Prof. Jerry Gana, had said the money donated to the PDP was not meant for the campaign of the defeated Jonathan alone.
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Lol. See Painment! Anyway, they are not bound by any known nigerian law to hang President Buhari's portrait.

It would just have raised a moral issue if only the APC hung Jonathan's own in their own secretariat when he was president.

Anyway, e be like say news scarce yesterday, so the reporter just wan fill space

Wetin His picture wan do for abnormal party/PSP dump site(house) ? Clueless pipu .Awon oniranu deede ''Useless set of pipu''

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Tit for tat

They are afraid of the picture ni.....

BRB

The portrait will be reminding them of anti-corruption and would cause unease to them.

With this PDP action, With total sense of responsibilities, PDP lacks the capacity to act as opposition party in this country. Therefore, Nigerian Youths stand up against any form dictatorship ( either APC or PDP)


Youth 4 progressive Change.
Youth hit the ground running.
Nigeria should move.

Pure madness ... Is portrait a do or die parole


Temitemi1 where hast thou

Again, PDP squanders yet another golden opportunity to warm itself into the heart of Nigerians.

Either you hang it or not, it doesn't the change the reality. And the reality is that Mr Buhari is the President of Nigeria. -lawfully elected and widely accepted.

Practices such as this coming from an opposition is not healthy for democracy.

This is a negation of PDP's promise to Nigerians to provide quality,crisp and useful opposition which would help keep the government on its toes and strengthen our nascent democracy.

Again, if you have decided to follow suit in what you allegedly said the APC did(as it were), so how then can you tell Nigerians the PDP is different from the APC?

I stand by the first statement, a golden opportunity squandered by the PDP

How will that change the price of garri in the market?

Chiefpriest1:
Lol. See Painment! Anyway, they are not bound by any known nigerian law to hang President Buhari's portrait.

It would just have raised a moral issue if only the APC hung Jonathan's own in their own secretariat when he was president.

Anyway, e be like say news scarce yesterday, so the reporter just wan fill space

seconded

That doesn't change the fact that Buhari is the president of Nigeria.

Buhari is the Angel Nigerians needed let God bless the ground beneath his feet. Shame on those unpatriotic losers.

makzeze:
How would that affect Buhari's performance in office.

Rubbish!

I tire o

PDP's decay rate is faster than expected. The party's woes are more than that of a prodigal child. The continuous wailing by the leadership is ridiculous.

They obviously did not save anything from their loots in cash or kind for the rainy day. No cohesion. A party disorganized in less than 100 days of losing power. Shame!

I think they should study Tinubu's style of politics, take out the chaff, consolidate on the positives if they want a near rebound in 2019. Else it will be a show of disgrace. The party may end up being too broke to fund any electoral activity.

Hanging PMB's portrait concerns them alone. The party's secretariat is of no importance to Nigerians!

Why will I read such nonsense




Better things to read





Who cares if they hang his pic




Sai buhari

See me, see mallam o

I went to price ram for market

Mallam how much be this ram

Mallam: contomer walahi #150,000

Me: for waiting?

Mallam: walahi na price be that, you know say dollar don cost

Me: I beg waiting concern dollar with ram, ram don dey chop dollar?
tell Baba duara to make $1 to #1

Rubbish....

Na una wahala be dat.

who cares? hang or no hang his still the president. PDP ndi Asai.

efiwonle. Abi kilo ti e kan mi gan? All i need is good governance

Oshisco smhh

They are still licking their wounds.

Is it against the law? No.

Therefore, the PDP has right to decide whose picture to hang in their secretariat. They can put that of Kanye West if they so desire

Childish...

I have the portrait already in my office.

General Mohamodu Buhari is the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and nothing anyone can do about that irrespective of our political differences.

He may be slow, we may attack him objectively to put him on his toes, but he remains the president.

Btw: No law compel anyone to hang any ones portrait. If you like hang Lucifer's portrait, it's a free world.

So, this is non-issue to me.

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria

God bless the President.

The labour of our heroes past: Shall never be in vain...

Na dem sabi....All I know is buhari is working,haters re hating

pettiness

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