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PDP Crisis: Party Blames “hate Campaign” For Jonathan’s Defeat by MichaelSokoto(m): 8:14pm On May 04, 2015 |
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. www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/182424-pdp-crisis-party-blames-hate-campaign-for-jonathans.html Seun, Lalasticlala 1 Like
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Re: PDP Crisis: Party Blames “hate Campaign” For Jonathan’s Defeat by fammo: 8:24pm On May 04, 2015 |
FTC. I smell front page. |
Re: PDP Crisis: Party Blames “hate Campaign” For Jonathan’s Defeat by Nobody: 8:26pm On May 04, 2015 |
I love transformation I hate "change" |
Re: PDP Crisis: Party Blames “hate Campaign” For Jonathan’s Defeat by obi4eze(m): 9:16pm On May 04, 2015 |
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Re: PDP Crisis: Party Blames “hate Campaign” For Jonathan’s Defeat by geniusss: 9:18pm On May 04, 2015 |
OREMUSSANCTUS: Elections are over, so get a life! 4 Likes |
Re: PDP Crisis: Party Blames “hate Campaign” For Jonathan’s Defeat by Nobody: 9:29pm On May 04, 2015 |
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Re: PDP Crisis: Party Blames “hate Campaign” For Jonathan’s Defeat by ki02020(m): 9:34pm On May 04, 2015 |
It is not hate campaigns.....it is freedom of the press.....fools 1 Like |
Re: PDP Crisis: Party Blames “hate Campaign” For Jonathan’s Defeat by Hedybee(f): 10:17pm On May 04, 2015 |
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Re: PDP Crisis: Party Blames “hate Campaign” For Jonathan’s Defeat by JingoOAU(m): 10:44pm On May 04, 2015 |
Too late 1 Like |
Re: PDP Crisis: Party Blames “hate Campaign” For Jonathan’s Defeat by nwaanambra1(m): 10:50pm On May 04, 2015 |
OREMUSSANCTUS: 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, 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] 2 Likes |
Re: PDP Crisis: Party Blames “hate Campaign” For Jonathan’s Defeat by moha225: 11:08pm On May 04, 2015 |
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 1 Like |
Re: PDP Crisis: Party Blames “hate Campaign” For Jonathan’s Defeat by themilanway(m): 11:21pm On May 04, 2015 |
Olisah Metuh forgot"Born throway by mama peace" No need crying over spilt milk,see you guys in 2019. 1 Like |
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