*Accuse forces of plot to make Nigeria one-party state
By Folorunso Alagbede, in Abuja
Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have accused those they called ‘enemies of progress’ and ‘agents of confusion’ of clandestinely working towards creating a one-party state in the country.
The said negative forces and their agents, according to the PDP Governors, are intent upon splitting the opposition, thereby crippling democratic institutions and values in Nigeria through questionable adoptions and misinterpretation of the law.
The aim is to strangle the lifeline of the nation to enforce dictatorship and one-party rule.
The Governors said this on saturday in a statement issued by the Director-General of the the PDP Governors’ Forum, (PDP-GF), Dr. Emmanuel Agbo in Abuja.
The Governors also dismissed the allegations that five of them are working for and supporting APC’s Nasir El-Rufai/Peter Obi 2027 ticket.
The PDP-GF, under the chairmanship of the Governor of Bauchi State, Senator Bala Mohammed, pointed out that the
mischief makers and detractors, who, are bewildered at the way and manner the PDP Governors are daily performing to pull the people out of economic hardship despite the intimidation by the ruling APC, are only intimidated and “can only throw mud at our good works”.
The statement by Dr Agbo reads, “It is incumbent on the PDP Governors’ Forum, through its leadership anchored by the Governor of Bauchi State, Senator Bala Mohammed, to openly denounce, and in very strong terms, the unpleasant and provoking publications and rumours being peddled, ad nauseam, by negative forces and their agents who cannot absorb the temerity of this Forum to question their incapacities in leadership by performing above the limits imposed by their failed economic policies and programs, which have left the ordinary Nigerian with nothing other than poverty and financial hardship down to the remote locations.
“Unsatisfied with the results their clones have gotten in the low-willed factions they keep financing within our party structure, they have proceeded with direct confrontation on the Governors towards creating a one-party entrapment, with intention to split the opposition and thereby cripple democratic institutions and values through questionable adoptions and misinterpretation of the law, all to strangle the lifeline of our nation to enforce dictatorship and one-party rule.
“The PDP Governors’ Forum is not in consonance with these actors, neither does it enjoy any ambience of political space to discuss nor seal the auction of the PDP through lowlife grifters who are allegedly working behind the scenes to support a “potential Nasir El-Rufai/Peter Obi presidential ticket in the 2027 election”.
“As a formidable party, all organs of the party have continually been engaged in attaining reconciliation across the board and reconsolidation of progressive development made in our Subnational to ameliorate the lives of our people.
“It is obvious that these mischief makers and detractors, who are bewildered at the way and manner PDP Governors are daily performing to pull the people out of economic hardship despite the intimidation by the ruling APC, are only intimidated and can only throw mud at our good works.
“In the world of politics, rumors and speculations are common, as such, we will not allow these ‘Enemies of Progress’ and ‘Agents of Confusion’ to gaslight the Nigerian people to draw wrong and erroneous conclusions.
“Our principles are for equity, social justice, sincerity of purpose, accountability, enthronement of undefiled electoral process, enhancement of the lives of the people, and propagation of humanity.
“Suffice it for us to irrevocably state here that in 2027, PDP Governors as disciplined leaders and stakeholders will exemplify this by wholeheartedly supporting whoever emerges as the flag-bearer of our great party in the battle to wrestle power from the non-performers at the centre.
“As a creed we all share, the dreams of the founding fathers of our great party will not be in vain”, the PDP-GF said.
