PDP Replies Kwankwaso Over Comments On Jonathan, PDP Govs

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the attack by Kano State governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, on governors elected on the platform of the party, after a recent PDP rally in Kano. The PDP, categorically described Kwankwaso as being uncultured for calling his fellow governors, especially the governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, vultures. Kwankwaso, had after the PDP unity rally last April, described the PDP governors as vultures, even though he recently clarified that he never called President Goodluck Jonathan vulture or evil. The chairman of PDP Governors’ Forum, Governor Godswill Akpabio and other southern governors had accompanied the president to the unity rally. The national secretary of the PDP, Prof Adewale Oladipo, who replied the governor at a press conference at the party headquarters, said “Whilst the PDP recognises the inalienable right of citizens to hold opinions and identify with political platforms of their choice, we indeed find it very difficult to understand the type of bitterness that has taken hold of an elected person like Governor Kwankwaso who hugely benefitted from the PDP on which platform he was twice elected governor in addition to being appointed minister.”