The Peoples Democratic Party
on Thursday congratulated the
All Progressives Congress on
the purported defection of five
PDP governors to its fold.
Mr Olisa Metuh, National
Publicity Secretary of the
party, in a statement in Abuja,
said that the PDP was not
perturbed by the
development.
“As for the All Progressive
Congress, we congratulate
them on their new entrants.
“We also like to recommend to
them that a man who brings
home ant-infested maggots
should not complain if he is
visited by lizards.
“The PDP is losing no sleep
with this cross carpeting
because disloyalty is a habit.
“It’s only a matter of time
before men who are disloyal to
their mother would become
disloyal to their step mother. ”
Metuh said.
He said that the Baraje-led
PDP splinter group, which the
defected governors belonged,
was not recognised by law and
could not merge with the APC
as was being reported.
“Our attention has been drawn
to reports from some persons
passing off the cross carpeting
of a group of former PDP
members to the APC as a
merger.
“This information is false and
is intended to mislead the
public.”
The party spokesman said that
what happened between the
group and the APC on Nov. 26,
was not a merger.
According to him, you can only
talk of a merger where there
are two distinct parties.
He added that in the case of
the splinter group and APC,
there was only one party – the
APC and the splinter group,
otherwise known as the new
PDP, which was never a
political party. This, he said,
was established on Oct. 10 by
a court ruling.
According to him, the
Independent National Electoral
Commission has written to the
splinter group that the Alhaji
Bamanga Turkur-led PDP was
the only recognised party by
that name.
“From the above, it is quite
clear that there hasn’t been a
merger but an opportunistic
cross carpeting of disloyal
elements into the APC.”
He added that the fact that
President Goodluck Jonathan
agreed to dialogue with the
splinter group was out of
magnanimity and his large
heart as a leader, not because
they were recognised by the
law.
This, he noted, had been
demonstrated severally by the
President as an epitome of
humility and a father to all PDP
members and Nigerians
generally.
Metuh, however, said that
those who associated with the
PDP splinter group were
“motivated by blind ambition
and vain glory’’.
Metuh said that PDP was not
diminished because of the
departure of the people: “We
would like to draw attention to
the fact that a tree that has
been pruned of its under
performing branches grows
better and blossoms with new
life.
“This is the case in biology as
well as in politics.’’
The News Agency of Nigeria
(NAN) reports that five
governors of the PDP defected
to the APC on Nov. 26.
They took the decision after a
meeting between the Baraje-
ledPDP splinter group and the
APC leadership in Abuja.
The group announced its
intension to join the APC in a
communiqué jointly signed by
Alhaji Abubakar Baraje,
leaders of the splinter group
and Chief Bisi Akande, APC
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