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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused former Kano State governor, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso of making incendiary comments which old destabilize the national assembly.

The party was responding to an interview granted by the governor in which he advised senate president Bukola Saraki not to allow his ambition destroy the APC which many have laboured to build. He described the PDP as a dead party in the interview.

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh responded to Kwankwaso in a statement on Tuesday, expressing shock by “the hate statement from Senator Kwankwaso wherein he used offensive language on the PDP and its members in the National Assembly.”

The party said it was “taken aback by the venom and bitterness in the statement especially coming from a former governor, an elected senator, a highly respected former member of the PDP, who also benefited hugely from the party as minister and two-time state governor.”

The PDP said it would have wished not to join issues with politicians who grew their political profile in the party no matter where they are at the moment, but regretted that “Senator Kwankwaso went too far in declaring the party dead just because he is aggrieved that the Senate Presidency did not go his way.”

It said it was “indecorous, mischievous and misleading for anybody to declare a party with an enviable history as the PDP, with 14 state governors, 47 Senators and hundreds of members in the House of Representatives and State Houses of Assembly dead.”

“Where was Senator Kwankwaso when a party he claimed was dead defeated his choice candidate in the Senate? Was it a dead party that was able to do what according to Kwankwaso, no other party could do in the 16 years of PDP control of the National Assembly?

“Indeed, we found it very baffling that such unguarded statement came from a person who contested for the high office of the president of Nigeria.

“Statements from such personalities should be decorous, statesmanly and focused on the national interest instead of promoting acrimony and division in the polity. This unfortunate outburst is well below Senator Kwankwaso’s character and status and we urge him to desist from such”, the PDP said.

The party underlined that Senator Kwankwaso and other APC leaders should rather be grateful to PDP senators for being disciplined and not using their preponderance at the inauguration to take the entire leadership of the Senate following the opening created by the APC leaders in convening a meeting of senators-elect at the same time fixed for the election of the leaders of the National Assembly.

OREMUSSANCTUS:
We in pdp re not selfish
We put d country first before our own interest

OREMUSSANCTUS:
We in pdp re not selfish
We put d country first before our own interest

OREMUSSANCTUS:
We in pdp re not selfish
We put d country first before our own interest

jayfolarin:
The fact that you 'oremumu' are a pdp member can only give credence to kwankwaso's argument that the party is a dead one with only short-sighted and wee-brained individuals as members and supporters.

I'm out!