The five state governors who defected
from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) last year will fight the second
term ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan, a spokesman has said.
“We have noted President Jonathan’s
claim made last Thursday at the National Executive Committee (NEC)
meeting of the PDP in the federal capital, to the effect that PDP is not
missing us, as well as his boast that some of us cannot win even our
wards during elections,” said spokesman for the defunct nPDP, Chief Eze
Chukwuemeka Eze, in a statement.
He described Jonathan’s claims as “both shocking and ridiculous considering that he wouldn’t have been President today if not for our sacrifices which ensured that he won both the PDP Presidential Primaries and the 2011 presidential election.”
He said, “It is on record that Rivers State under Amaechi’s watch made Jonathan’s presidency possible by delivering over two million votes in his favour during the 2011 presidential polls.
“For the same Dr. Jonathan to turn around, only three years down the line, to describe Governor Amaechi as a political lightweight who cannot win his ward speaks volumes about how ungrateful and uncharitable a man he is.”
Eze berated PDP for commending and congratulating President Jonathan on his handling of the security challenges facing the country, including the Boko Haram insurgency.
“By commending President Jonathan at a time when he has proved to be completely overwhelmed by the security challenges confronting Nigeria, PDP has demonstrated without any reasonable doubt that it has lost its sense of value, which explains why it is celebrating a clueless and spineless President who watched helplessly as insurgents took away and has kept over 200 innocent schoolgirls, and who continues to watch as Nigerians are slaughtered like chicken on a daily basis,” he said
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