The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, has vowed not to hang the official portrait
of President Muhammadu Buhari at the party’s national
secretariat.
The Punch reports that the PDP has yet to hang the
president’s portrait at any of the offices in its Wadata
House national secretariat, located at Zone 5, Abuja,
100 days after he assumed power.
“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,” PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa
Metuh, told the newspaper on Tuesday.
“We are a political party, very partisan and therefore,
we are not going to hide that,” he added.
Metuh said the APC also did not hang the portrait of
Jonathan 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,” he quipped,
Metuh said the action was not a retaliation but that
since Buhari “is not a member of our party, we won’t
put his portrait here.”
APC National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, in
his reaction said “This is ridiculous and we have no
comment. Let Nigerians judge the PDP on this matter.”
He said the PDP spokesman has limited understanding
of the concept of opposition politics.
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