•••SAYS PARTY SOWING SEEDS OF HATE, DISUNITY
The ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, has reacted to the statement by the main opposition party the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), on the visit to the former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, by its Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
PDP had in a statement mocked Tinubu’s visit to Jonathan as image laundering and face saving.
The opposition party had reminded Nigerians of Tinubu’s hatred for Jonathan and asked the former president not forget his 2015 antecedents in a hurry.
According to the statement by the National Publicity Secretary, All Progressives Congress (APC), Barr. Felix Morka, the PDP hit the panic button to raise false alarm, by saying the move won’t help Tinubu.
According to Morka, Asiwaju’s consultative visit to the former President was a strategic move for national unity and cohesion, a move worthy of commendation and emulation.
He stated that PDP that is blindfolded by politics of partisanship rather than preaching the healing of old wounds, mend fences, and build bridges of national unity and harmony.
“Rattled by the recent statesmanly visit of our Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has hit the panic button in false alarm, saying the move won’t help our candidate and party
“Again, the PDP proves itself as a party afflicted with chronic myopia, lacking in vision and incapable of recognizing the imperative of elevating the common good of our country above partisan quibbles
“That party’s obsession with puerile partisanship blinds it to existential and strategic opportunities to heal old wounds, mend fences, and build bridges of national unity and harmony. Sadly, the PDP would rather fan the embers of hate and division
“Asiwaju’s consultative visit to the former President was a strategic move for national unity and cohesion, a move worthy of commendation and emulation
“The infantile outburst on the Asiwaju/Jonathan parley by the same PDP that claims to be on a self-styled mission to unify Nigeria only betrays the party’s extreme hypocrisy and folly.
“The PDP’s track record of 16 years of misrule, corruption and squandermania, remains indelible in the consciousness of Nigerians
“Contrary to PDP’s laughable claim that the duo of Asiwaju Tinubu and Sen. Shettima are distancing themselves from President Buhari’s administration, it is on record that this government deftly managed two economic recessions, and pulled the nation back from the precipice where PDP’s years of atrocious rule left it hanging precariously
“Our party and its Presidential Candidate are seeking the mandate of Nigerians to consolidate on the foundation of restoration and greatness that has been laid across all sectors by the Buhari administration
“The PDP and it’s co-peddlers of hate and disunity cannot stop this noble aspiration.” The statement reads.
