The senior special assistant to the All Progressives Congress (APC) national chairman, Chief Oliver Okpala, yesterday said his principal, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje is a committed democrat.
Okpala was reacting to recent criticisms by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and other opposition parties over an alleged usage of the expression “APC will capture two other states after Ondo” credited to
Ganduje at a recent stakeholders meeting of the APC in Ondo State.
The national publicity secretary of the PDP, Mr. Debo Ologunagba, in a statement tackled Ganduje over the comment, claiming he does not believe in the tenets of democracy and the rule of law.
But Okpala, in the statement, wondered how those who have never really occupied elective positions of honour in the country could describe a man who has twice, contested and won the governorship of a great state like Kano through a democratic process, as not being a true democrat.
He maintained that even before the present democratic dispensation, Ganduje had contested and won important positions in reputable political organisations like the defunct National Party of Nigeria, NPN.
The senior special assistant described the statement by the PDP as the rantings of an organisation sunk in the political ocean of misery and rudderlessness.
He said the PDP was a party in crisis that cannot put its house in order, therefore unable to see clearly.
He described Ologunagba’ s attack on Ganduje as a clear show of ignorance and deep inadequacy in the terrain of language proficiency.
“It is shameful that Ologunagba and other PDP chieftains are angling for Ganduje’s Jugular over a simple comment portraying the desire of the APC to win the South West states into its fold. What is wrong with that?
“Ologunagba and his party are only crying because of the imminent defeat starring them in Ondo just like they were roundly beaten in Edo,” he said.
