President Goodluck Jonathan has decried the lack of internal democratic processes within the main opposition political party in the country, the All Progressives Congress. Speaking at a Peoples Democratic Party South East rally in Enugu, Jonathan said there was nothing progressive about the APC.
Jonathan chimed on the positives of the PDP saying it was the only party in the country where the voice of the people mattered and decisions are taken on popular votes.
His words: “We are not like one party in this country where one man or a group of people determine how the party is run,” said the President.
“The national chairman of the PDP or any of its governors can’t cancel a ward congress of the party just like that and with impunity. I, as the President, don’t even have the powers to do so, but it is happening in a political party in this country.”
“One party tags itself as progressives but where are they progressing to. It is only in such progressive party that you find an ex-governor determining who gets what and how. Is that what you mean by progressives?”
“The PDP would not disappoint you. “It is the only party where the President would not impose a candidate. It is the only party where people like me from a non-privileged background can stand here and talk.”
“In the South-East, the PDP is total. Every state has a maximum of three senators and a minimum of three senators. It is now clear the South-East is a PDP zone.”
He added, “We will take over the governorship seat of the other state in the South-East come 2015. We have been very magnanimous but we are going to clear the seats totally.”