In response to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) latest attack on All Progressives Congress (APC), President Buhari shuts the opposing party up with claims that his party members have repented.
In a statement on Sunday, the PDP said the emergence of former Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Adamu as the National Chairman of the APC would worsen corruption and economic hardship in the country.
A statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Debo Ologunagba, had also stated that the “imposition of Senator Abdullahi Adamu, a man who was arraigned in Court on 149 counts of alleged fraudulent award of contracts and stealing of public funds estimated at N15 billion, as its National Chairman,” was proof that the APC cannot fight corruption.
With his corruption case with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was still very much alive, Adamu and 10 other PDP senators defected from the PDP to the APC in January 2014.
However, in a statement signed by Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Buhari, the Presidency described Adamu and some others as sinners who have repented.
The Presidency said it was wrong for the PDP to think that some of its members who joined the APC could not take up leadership positions.
“What the Convention made clear was how the media has been peddling fake news of division, when the hard reality of unity, cohesion, and indeed personal warmth between members of the party’s leaders – incoming and outgoing – was evident for all to see,” Shehu claimed.
“Of course, the blame for this mindset ought rightly to go to the opposition who in all these years had done the work to only divide the country, leading to all manner of separatist agitations.
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