Atiku laments betrayal of S-West PDP Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has lamented the fate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the South-West and alleged betrayal of the people there by the national and zonal leaders of the ruling party. Noting the easy victory of the party in the 2011 presidential elections in all but one of the South West states, Abubakar said that it was easy to conclude that the party negotiated the presidential elections with zonal leaders at the expense of the gubernatorial, National Assembly and other elective positions. “It still remains a paradox to me how the presidential candidate of the party would win massively in all but one state of the South West, yet the party failed to produce a single state governor in the region and could only produce 18 State Assembly members in the same election,” Abubakar said in a statement prepared ahead of the forthcoming zonal congress of the party in the South-West. “My experience in politics tells me that this paradox can only be explained in one way, that the leadership of the party must have abandoned the party and negotiated the victory of the President at the expense of the party.”
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 00:12:47 +0000
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