PDP replies Presidency, says it remains vibrant, major opposition

The Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday said it was untrue that
opposition was missing or dead in Nigeria.

The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan,
during a media briefing in Abuja said the statement credited to the
National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Mr.
Issa Onilu; and Mr. Shehu Garba, media aide to President Muhammadu
Buhari, that opposition was dead, was a figment of their
imagination.

He stated that the PDP had remained vibrant as a major
opposition party.

He also said Nigeria will never become a one-party state,
warning that efforts to turn the country in the past to one-party
state failed; adding that Nigeria will always survive
dictators.

Ologbondiyan advised people who are advising the Buhari
presidency to attempt to turn Nigeria to a one-party state to back
off.

He said, “The Buhari presidency came out to claim that there are
agitators for a third term. We quickly pointed it out to them that
there are no agitators; rather, if there is anything, it is the
Buhari Presidency who is bringing the third term to the issue of
national discourse.

“We assured them that, given the magnificent failures of this
Buhari Presidency, Nigerians are not ready to discuss it.

“From there, they have moved to the issue of one-party state and
bringing it to national discourse. Even that is totally
unacceptable to us and I want those who are advising the President
on this issue to back off.

“As they came out to claim that the major opposition party is
dead, we want to state clearly that our party is the consensus
political party of the majority of Nigerians and our party, after a
long journey of overhauling, has become the centre for seeking for
power and good governance in our nation.

“The PDP does not contain certificate forgers; it is not a party
of people who are contrivers.

“Our political party is relating directly with Nigerian people
and we are working assiduously to make sure that democratic tenets
of our nation is not only entrenched but seen to be entrenched in
our nation.”

He added, “As we do not have space to respond to the gimmicks of
former democrats who went around the nation and brought a despot
into a democratic order, so also do we have no space to engage in
verbal discussion with characters who are known to be pillaging and
stealing directly from the patrimony of our nation.

“As such, we are not going to respond to the innuendos such
characters are bandying.

“The PDP remains the bastion of democracy in our nation. PDP is
in the Supreme Court to ensure that the mandate which was given to
Atiku and has been stolen is restored to us.”

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