Following the outcome of Saturday’s National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the opposition party has turned itself into a regional party.
The APC made its stance known in a Sunday statement through its National Public Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi.
The party said that the PDP punished the South West region for its poor 2015 election showing in the region by refusing to back a South West candidate for the position of National Chairman.
A senator, Buruji Kashamu (PDP-Ogun East), had equally warned the party before the Convention to back a South West candidate or risk becoming a regional party.
Prince Uche Secondus from the South-South geopolitical zone was elected the party chairman.
The ruling APC said that the antics of political actors at the convention showed that the PDP had not learnt from its mistakes that resulted in its loss at the 2015 general elections after a 16-year rule.
The statement read in part: “In reacting to revelations of how money-for-votes and systematic rigging was brazenly perpetuated during the National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the All Progressives Congress is mindful of the popular axiom: ‘A leopard cannot change its spot.”
However, APC said any member of the PDP that has integrity could join the ruling party.