The Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum has vowed to resist any attempt by the All Progressives Congress to foist a one party state on Nigerians.
The Governors spoke in a statement by the Director General of the PDPGF, CID Maduabum, on Thursday.
They said the APC constituted a threat to the country’s democracy by its attempt to force others to defect to the ruling party at the federal level and in most states of the Federation.
The opposition governors accused the Federal Government and the APC of deploying threats, intimidation and underhand tactics to force opposition governors into the ruling party.
The PDP recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari had reportedly expressed regret that “Zamfara State is governed by another party other than his own,” a development it said forced the state Governor, Bello Matawalle, who was elected on its platform, to defect to the APC.
The forum noted that the statement was a clear subtle threat to Matawalle by Buhari to join him in the APC or face the consequences.
The statement added: “Earlier, all sorts of threats had been deployed by the APC Caretaker/National Convention Planning Committee whose only job seemed to be to just lure PDP governors and other PDP stakeholders abandoning in the process their mandate of organising a National Convention.”
The opposition governors noted that if Buhari or the APC can spend 10 per cent of the energy they use in wooing PDP governors and stalwarts in tackling insecurity, building infrastructure and the wellbeing of Nigerians, the country would have been better.
“If Nigerians are allowed to express their political preferences through a free and fair election, APC will be roundly rejected,” the forum said.
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