The national leadership of the
Peoples Democratic Party has refused to hang the official portrait of President
Muhammadu Buhari at the party’s national secretariat.
Over 100 days after the President
assumed office, the PDP has yet to hang his portrait at any of the offices in
its Wadata House national secretariat, located at Zone 5, Abuja.
We will never hang his portrait in
this office, because President Buhari is not known to our party. He is not a
leader of our party and therefore we will never put his portrait here. We are a
political party, very partisan and therefore, we are not going to hide that,”
National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh, told Punch on Tuesday.
Before now, the party has always
been hanging the portraits of all the Presidents at the party’s reception area
as well as the National Executive Committee and National Working Committee
halls within the secretariat.
Metuh said the APC also did not hang
the portrait of Jonthan in its offices before the former President was defeated
in the March 28 election.
“Can you find out if the APC had the
portrait of former President Jonathan in their office before he was defeated?
That is just it,”
When asked whether the party was
taking its own pound of flesh, Metuh said no but that since Buhari “is not a
member of our party, we won’t put his portrait here.”
The APC National Publicity
Secretary, Mr. Lai Mohammed, expressed shock at Metuh’s comment.
“This is ridiculous and we have no
comment. Let Nigerians judge the PDP on this matter,” Mohammed said.
He said the PDP spokesman had a shallow understanding of the concept of opposition politics.
-Punch
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