“Let us look into the name of the party: The letters ‘P’ and ‘D’ and ‘P’ are very innocent.”
Alhaji Sule Lamido, a former presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party , in this interview with LEO SOBECHI, explains why founding members of the party reject name change for the party, stressing that those who want a change of name should rather change their political behaviourWhat reasons informed your opposition to name change for PDP?
People are afraid to leave it after all; they left some time ago. If we abandon the party, what are we going to get. The party has helped so many Nigerians; it has produced presidents, vice presidents, governors, senators, even the House of Representatives members, council chairmen, commissioners, ministers, ambassadors, name them.
There is also the claim that current party leadership does not seem to be grounded in the original founding principles of PDP. Is this true? So PDP won’t forget the wisdom and understanding of Nigerian dynamics and then begin to follow people stupidly, because today people are failing. Blame the people; do not blame PDP. Nigeria is going through a number of crises now like the Boko Haram issue and the rest, but then we have not changed the name of Nigeria.
What is the way forward, especially as those in power at the national level do not want to allow democracy to have its way? For instance in 2011, there was this northern caucus, which sat down and produced a consensus candidate for the PDP. They were seven of them and a mock congress was conducted by the northern PDP caucus. It had Babangida, Aliu Gusau, Saraki, Atiku and Nda Isaiah. It is normal; they got their own mock election or straw poll and they produced Atiku. When they came to the national convention, the question was, why is it coming to PDP? Let the northern PDP go and swear him in, take him to the villa.
By alliances and cooperation, you give what will bring a consensus. The Igbo people are not begging anybody; do not diminish their desire or degrade their interest. They have got friends in the West; they have got friends in the North and therefore once these friends come together who believe in the same Nigeria anything can be worked out.
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