PDP, Where Is Your Own Internal Democracy? Lai Mohammed

President Jonathan during a PDP rally

The cat and mouse war brewing between Nigeria’s two largest political parties, APC and PDP is showing no sign of let off as one of the parties has hit the other with another jibe.

Following adoption last week of President Goodluck Jonathan as the sole candidate to bear his party’s flag in next year’s general election in Nigeria, the All Progressive Congress, APC has criticized the decision; describing it as a ‘mockery of democracy.’

Reacting to PDP’s adoption of Jonathan, APC’s National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said the endorsement exposes the shameless hypocrisy going on within the PDP.

APC Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed

”Obviously, those fellows in the PDP have never heard of the saying that those who must come to equity must come with clean hands. PDP, where is your own internal democracy now that you have turned your party into a fiefdom controlled by one and only one person only?

                        

Though, the APC through its National Publicity Secretary is not entirely against endorsement, it however, frowned at the manner in which it was carried out by the PDP.

”While endorsements are part and parcel of democracy, they are never done to the exclusion of other candidates. This is simply not democratic. When then candidate Barrack Obama was endorsed by his party’s bigwigs to contest the US Presidency, the party never excluded Hillary Clinton from its primaries. That’s how it is done,” APC said.

Lai Mohammed also took a swipe at the ruling party for endorsing governors without considering how they have performed during their first term in office.

”It is now an Open Sesame for the PDP Governors, who have no prying anti-corruption agencies watching over their shoulders. They can now simply see the commonwealth as an extension of their deep pockets. The endorsement is also a vote of approval for the proceeds of corruption that have been powering the noisy and outrageous Transformation
Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN),” he said.

The APC did not spare the President whom it accused of desecrating the country’s democracy due to his desperation to cling on to power at all cost.

”It is a cruel irony that a man who has benefited, more than anyone else, from this democracy has been the one who has been doing everything possible to undermine it.”

”This President has basically abandoned governance. Unprecedented corruption is mounting, insecurity stalks the land and Nigerians grope in darkness as power generation has plummeted. This President has yet to tell Nigerians the full involvement of his government in the 9.3 million dollars that was illegally ferried to South Africa on a private jet. This President has yet to tell Nigerians why he has continued to hobnob with an alleged sponsor of Boko Haram, who is supposed to be under a probe by his Administration. Yet, he is eager to attend meetings with serious-minded leaders who have done well for their own people.”