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PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh 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,
checks have revealed.
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. The party has also said it would never
put Buhari’s portraits on its walls though it has removed that of the former
President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, who ruled on the platform of the PDP. “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 our correspondent on the telephone on Tuesday.
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,” he told our
correspondent. 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.
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