APC BEHIND FRESH PDP ―PDP REPS CAUCUS
APC BEHIND FRESH PDP ―PDP REPS CAUCUS
The PDP
caucus in a statement issued by Deputy Minority Leader, Honourable Chukwuka Onyema condemned
the group, describing it “as a mere band of ill-disguised impostors whom the
House caucus will never recognize or interact with”.
According
to him, “The mischievous claim of forming a fresh PDP with the voice of five
unknown men shows the hands of APC in its desperation to hold on to power by
all means, even after failing to touch lives purposefully in spite of making
scores of unrealized promises”.
The
statement read: “This band of impostors – pawns being strung along by
devious elements in the ruling party – has the audacity to arrogate the name of
our party, the PDP, to its misadventure, using a rented space somewhere in
Asokoro, Abuja.
“Feigning
complete ignorance that the Wadata Plaza national headquarters of the PDP that
is recognized by the Independent National Electoral Commission is located at
Wuse Zone 5 in Abuja, they pasted two copies of our flag on the wall and went
to town like a band of jesters.
“The
PDP House caucus hereby declares that the five leprous fingers said to constitute the
mischievous adventure do not constitute any faction, splinter group or whatever
fanciful description they claim within PDP as they are only serving the errands
of the ruling party elements planning to use them for even more mischief early
next year.
“The
activities of the said men claiming to be starting a fresh PDP deserve urgent
investigation and immediate halt by the police and the Department of State
Security as we would not want enraged supporters of the PDP to take the laws
into their hands in the process of dealing with such miscreants.
“There
is need to investigate how far these five leprous fingers are connected to the
APC and its past record of widespread deceit and unscrupulous propaganda.
“Our
convention has come and gone in the face of a ruling party that seems so
petrified at the thought of facing a reawakened PDP, even as it remains unable
to hold a national convention like we did.
“We
note too that a government that finds it impossible to implement a mere 25% of
the national budget in any given year has now frantically woken up in a rush,
doing a two-days’ FEC meeting just to pass contracts worth N378 billion before
campaigns begin in earnest”, the statement stated.