By Folorunso Alagbede, Abuja
Former Governor of Kano State and National Leader of New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso has been tongue lashed by the Peoples Democratic Party over his recent comment that the PDP is dead.
The PDP categorically dismissed Kwankwaso’s comments as those of a “very inconsequential politician” who has struggled to manage a party with control over just one state.
The former Governor of Kano State and erstwhile presidential aspirant on the platform of the PDP, it will be recalled, had in a recent interview claimed that the party is dead.
He also expressed confidence in his own presidential ambition.
The erstwhile Kano State Governor and former Minister of Defence, had been quoted in the interview as saying, “I wish to remind you that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is already dead, because we were in the party, since they have gone out of the line, we decided to check out.”
However, in his response,the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Hon. Debo Ologunagba dismissed Kwankwaso’s comments as those of a “very inconsequential politician” who has struggled to manage a party with control over just one state.
Ologunagba faulted Kwankwaso for disregarding the PDP’s significant national presence, which includes 13 state governors, numerous members of the national and state assemblies, and a robust presence across the country’s local government areas and wards
His words, “It is unfathomable to imagine that a failed and inconsequential politician with only one state would claim that a party that has 13 governors, many Senators, and numerous Representatives is dead”.
The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP equally thumbed down Kwankwaso’s perceived focus on his own presidential ambitions amidst the current national hardships, including soaring inflation, a plummeting Naira, and rising fuel prices.
Continuing, he said, “It is very unfortunate that at this time of widespread hardship and suffering, the only thing occupying Senator Kwankwaso’s mind is his self-centered pipe dream of becoming President.”
“ Several Nigerians including in Sen. Kwankwaso’s home State, Kano, are dying of hunger and starvation; when over 150 million Nigerians have sunk deeper into poverty; when millions of Nigerians are daily losing their means of livelihood; at the time the Naira has fallen to over N1,600 to a Dollar with over 34% inflation rate; in the wake of APC’s brutal increase in the price of petrol to over N1,200 in various parts of the country, the only thing that occupies Senator Kwankwaso’s mind is his self-centered pipe dream of becoming President. It is very unfortunate.
“So the PDP does not intend to join issues with him on such display of self-centeredness and insensitivity.
