The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has made it clear to the former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo that the country cannot afford to create what t called political quicksand in the third force as the country prepares for the 2019 general elections.
In a statement today, Tuesday, reacting to Obasanjo’s letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, the PDP rejected Obasanjo’s call for a third force, which it said would amount to repeating the same blunder that brought in the ideologically vacuous that had wrecked havoc on the nation.
In the statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party said that “the fact that President Buhari and the APC had irredeemably failed our nation is obvious to all, but that the solution to the nation’s problems does not lie in creating another political quicksand in a third force but consolidating on a rescue mission with the repositioned PDP which Nigerians have already embraced.
“The PDP is now standing on a truly democratic ground that perfectly represents and reflects the hopes and aspirations of all Nigerians irrespective of their class, creed or tribe.
“That is why our great party has now, more than ever before, become a center of the new patriotic and broad-based engagements by well-meaning Nigerians and coalitions across board, including past leaders, in rekindling our democratic process that places priority on returning power to the people.
“The fact is that Nigerians overrated President Buhari in 2015 but they have now seen that he never possessed the capacity and the required aptitude to effectively govern our great nation and pilot a healthy economy.
“This accounts for the reason former President Obasanjo, just like most Nigerians today, are concerned about the quality of presidential candidates to be presented by various parties for the 2019 election.
“The fact is that while the APC is already caught up with President Buhari, the PDP is open for a new engagement that will throw up the President, which our nation truly deserves at this crucial moment.
“We therefore call on Nigerians, including all our leaders across board, to come together to rebuild our nation on PDP’s consolidated base rather than traversing on another learning curve.” [myad]
