Other parties have lost their rights, identities to PDP coalition - Keyamo
- Festus Keyamo calls the coalition of the PDP and other parties as mere deceit
- Keyamo, a spokesperson of the Buhari campaign organisation, says the coalition will make the other parties lose their identities
- The senior lawyer says the coalition did not follow the rules
The over 30 political groups which signed a pact with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have ended up losing their rights and identities, the spokesperson of the Buhari campaign organisation, Festus Keyamo, has said.
Keyamo described the coalition as pure deceit and laughable desperation.
In a series of tweets, Keyamo, a senior lawyer, said: “Some political parties made up of just husbands and wives have signed an MOU with the PDP to form a ‘grand coalition’ against PMB in 2019.
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“This is pure deceit. PDP has only succeeded in registering a few more members into its fold. It’s not a ‘grand coalition’. It’s just membership drive.
“Nobody is deceived: In 2013 four major parties with elected governors and parliamentarians fused into one whole.
“The comedy we are seeing now is that PDP has sucked in those ‘briefcase’ parties who are going to drop their identities and support a PDP candidate. It’s laughable desperation.”
In a related development, The Nation also quoted Keyamo as reminding Nigerians that coalitions do not work in the way the parties suddenly came together on Monday, July 10.
"They ought to hold their individual conventions; they have to dissolve their individual executive committees in a national convention.
“They have to pass a resolution in those national conventions to go into a merger.
“It’s only the national convention that can approve the merger of all of those 37 or so political parties. It is after the approval of those mergers that they can go into talks with other parties.
“So, what they have done, what has happened in Abuja today (yesterday) is a non-event. Nothing is going on because at the end of the day, what will happen is that the other parties are being deceived.
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“They will finally field what is called a PDP candidate. There will be no other candidate. Is that what they want? Is that what the other parties want?”
Legit.ng earlier reported that Alhaji Buba Galadima, the national chairman of the Redeemed All Progressives Congress (R-PC) has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to drop his ambition for a re-election in 2019 because he would be defeated.
Galadima, whose R-APC fused with the other political parties in the evening of Monday, July 9, said President Buhari was destined to lose the 2019 election.
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