{"id":6868,"date":"2013-07-21T17:25:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T17:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/buharitinubu-will-lose-2015-election-despite-merger-pdp\/"},"modified":"2013-07-21T17:25:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T17:25:50","slug":"buharitinubu-will-lose-2015-election-despite-merger-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/buharitinubu-will-lose-2015-election-despite-merger-pdp\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari,Tinubu will Lose 2015 Election despite merger \u2013 PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Citizens Platform<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) Sunday urged the Leader of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and the national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to stop parading themselves as saints and democrats.<\/p>\n

The Party in a statement issued in Abuja by the Acting National Publicity Secretary, Tony Okeke lambasted the leaders of the major opposition political parties in Nigeria saying Nigerians know their \u201cdictatorial antecedents\u201d.<\/p>\n

The party said they took stock of activities of the two men and submitted that they are bitter because they know that “they will loose the 2015 general election despite the merger of their parties which the ruling party say is “built on deceit, corruption and falsehood”.<\/p>\n

The PDP Condemned the CPC for castigating Buhari’s former aid, Yinka Odumakin for what the party believe is “exposing the atrocities of the CPC leader and those of ACN officials in a recent statement shows the CPC as a party characterized by falsehood.”<\/p>\n

The statement reads. \u201cBuhari and Tinubu are united in dictatorship. It is on this pedestal that they are pursuing their merger to register the All Progressive Congress which manifesto betrays the fact that they have absolutely nothing to offer but desperate for power for their selfish gains\u201d .<\/p>\n

The party said Gen. Buhari has refused to \u201cchange his dictatorial tendencies\u201d by continuing to \u201cimpose himself as leader of any political party where he finds himself\u201d and by using his \u201cdespotic powers to handpick candidates for elections\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2003, he forced John Nwodo Jr. and other presidential candidates in the then APP to step down for him leading to the famous \u2018I weep for Nigeria\u2019 statement by Nwodo. In 2003 Buhari imposed himself and failed. In 2007 and 2011 he imposed himself and failed. If he imposes himself and his lackey Tinubu or Tinubu\u2019s wife as running-mate in 2015, he will also fail\u201d, the statement read.<\/p>\n

Outbursts between the PDP and two main opposition parties-Action Congress of Nigeria and the Congress of Progressive Change-have become a weekly routine, with each side targeting the other with more verbal attacks that are often more personal, than on policies.<\/p>\n

The PDP said Tinubu lacks democratic credentials and should learn to advice himself before pouring \u201clame vituperations\u201d on the PDP on issues of internal democracy.<\/p>\n

The party said. \u201cTinubu has been going around making statements to portray himself as a hero of democracy from which imaginary pedestal he continues to vilify and accuse the PDP of working against Nigeria\u2019s democracy,\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to the PDP led by President Jonathan. \u201cIt is to say the least, rather pathetic that the opposition leader has failed to realize that Nigerians have since become fully aware of his double facedness as he has continued to exhibit crass dictatorship in the leadership of the ACN and states controlled by the ACN through which he has continued to syphon the resources of the states.”<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is on record that the so called democrat crowned himself the national leader of the ACN without recourse to appropriate democratic process. It is also on record that Tinubu forced the former Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, to leave the Senate, despite his enviable performance, only to replace him with his wife, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, who has made no meaningful contribution since she got to the Senate more than two years ago thereby depriving the good people of Lagos State effective representation in the Senate.”<\/p>\n

\u201cNigerians have not forgotten how Tinubu recently imposed his daughter, Mrs. Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, who is not a full-time trader to replace his late mother, Abibatu Mogaji as President-General of the Association of Nigerian Market Women and Men.\u201d<\/p>\n

The PDP\u2019s statement, accused the former Lagos state governor of installing his son in-law, Oyetunde Oladimeji Ojo, as a member representing Ijero\/Efon\/Ekiti West of Ekiti State in the House of Representatives while his daughter was imposed as a member of the Lagos state House of Assembly.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is still fresh in the minds of Nigerians that Tinubu recently tried to bar a member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Bamidele Opeyemi from contesting the 2014 governorship election in Ekiti State, a despotic act which was widely condemned across the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cNigerians have not forgotten that the same man who now parades himself as a champion of democracy ran away at the heat of the military dictatorship, leaving the struggle for acclaimed statesmen such as Pa. Abraham Adesaya, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, Dr. Alex Ekwueme among others, just to return at the end of the struggle to wangle his way to become Governor of Lagos State.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Source: Citizens Platform<\/p>\n

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