Cairo Ojougboh, the vice-chairman of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the South-South, has mocked the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) over failure to solve its crisis.
He said the party has shown lack of coordination and ideology in handling the National Assembly crisis, adding that Nigerians will ask the PDP to return in 2019.Ojougboh was speaking at the secretariat of the opposition party in Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers state on July 6.
The vice-chairman said a committee headed by Ahmed Makarfi, ex-governor of Kaduna state, has visited the PDP’s secretariat in the South-South to accept memorandum on how the party can become victorious in the 2019 general polls.
He cautioned that his party would not bear any effort to use the poll tribunals against its interest.
“Rivers and Akwa Ibom states tribunals are sitting in Abuja. No amount of intimidation will make the PDP lose the elections it won freely and fairly in those states. Any move to rig us out at the tribunals will be resisted,” Ojougboh said.
He claimed that the PDP was against the appointment of Amina Zakari as acting chairman of Nigeria’s main electoral body.
“We have said that the appointment of Zakari is completely unacceptable to us. The example that ex-President Goodluck Jonathan gave should be followed. We know that she is not apolitical,” the vice-chairman concluded.
After the loosing general elections several months ago the PDP, which became opposition after 16 years of ruling, has several times vowed to reclaim power from the APC in 2019.
It would be recalled that Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler who governed Nigeria in the 1980s, had led an opposition party to victory in a presidential poll for the first time in the Nigeria’s history.
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