ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is doing everything within it’s power to destabilise the opposition, says the chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dele Momodu.
He said this in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday.
Momodu also accused the ruling party of plotting to crush the opposition.
The PDP chieftain said: “APC will do everything possible to destroy opposition; buy those who are buyable, to terrorise those who are not buyable and make sure that the party is in disarray, that is all.”
He further claimed that President Bola Tinubu is suffocating the opposition even after thriving as an opposition leader before his party overtook power from the PDP.
“You see part of my admiration for then Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Lagos was the role he played as an opposition leader.
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“But unfortunately, now we have a former opposition leader in government, and they don’t want opposition, it’s an irony,” he added.
Momodu, however, expressed optimism that the PDP will resolve its issues and bounce back as a strong opposition party.
Also, he stated that the party’s presidential candidate in 2023, Atiku Abubakar, is already making moves to bring every member of the party together to forge ahead as a strong family.
It would be recalled that the main opposition party has been hit with crisis following the its presidential election primary in 2023 and its consequent loss at the 2023 general elections.
This crisis in the PDP saw some of its members exiting the party, with the former governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha resigning from the party recently.
According to Ihedioha, he resigned due to inability of the party to play the role of opposition as expected.
He said everything going wrong in the PDP is engineered by APC, adding that the ruling party has bought over some PDP members to disrupt the party.