Opposition is frustrated- PDP

THE ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Tuesday, maintained that poverty of ideas has caused the frustration of the opposition in the country. The party observed that the opposition has resorted to personal attacks and insults on President Goodluck Jonathan because of absence of ideology in their camp. The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh, made these assertions when the PDP Forum of Zonal Publicity Secretaries paid a courtesy visit to the party national secretariat in Abuja. Reiterating the party’s earlier stance on the utterances of leaders of the opposition heating up the polity, Metuh insisted that such opposition statements also embolden insurgents in the country. He also opined that the PDP has provided a level playing field for party members in its belief that power belongs
to the people. “Our mantra is that power belongs to the people in a democratic setting. It is not one man that chooses his successor, or chooses the people that will contest election,” he added. Citing the successful hosting of the just concluded World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa, PDP stressed that President Jonathan had been able to remain focused in the midst of enormous security challenges in the country. Speaking earlier, chairman of the Forum of Zonal Publicity Secretaries of PDP and South- South Zonal Publicity Secretary, Ali Odeifa, pledged the loyalty of the forum to President Jonathan and the national leadership of the PDP.