PDP crumbling under your watch, APC tells Secondus

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has alleged that the leading opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is crumbling and shockingly rudderless under its current national chairman, Prince Uche Secondus.

The APC in a statement on Monday, by its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena alleged that Secondus’ activities in the PDP had made some prominent members of the party to jump ship.

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A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, Senator Barnabas Gemade are among others who dumped the PDP for the APC recently.

But reacting, Secondus denied the allegations, saying the PDP is waxing stronger under his watch.

The APC said, “PDP has never had it this bad with the opposition party’s stakeholders detached from the party activities as was witnessed with notable PDP leaders boycotting the party’s 2019 presidential campaigns and the recent Bayelsa state governorship bribe-for-ticket scandal that indicted Secondus.

“The PDP under Secondus is in willful denial of the obvious that under the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC administration, free, fair and credible elections is the new normal.

“Why will the PDP under Secondus not support efforts to ensure the independence of our state institutions such as the Judiciary, INEC and our security services and ultimately deepen our democracy and improve our electioneering system?

“We call on progressive partisans, particularly in the PDP not to sink with the opposition party which has become clearly disillusioned under Secondus.”

But Secondus who spoke through his Special Adviser on Media, Ike Abonyi in a telephone chat with our correspondent said the allegation has no substance.

“When Secondus assumed office, we had 11 states. But now we have 16 states.

“They have to say something. Anybody can say something. So what they said is just a political talk. The PDP is waxing stronger and stronger under Secondus. The evidence is there,” he said.