PPA Has Gone Beyond Dirty Politics- Ameh

The newly elected National Secretary of Progressive People’s Alliance (PPA), PPA, Mr Peter Ameh, said on Friday in Abuja that PPA had gone beyond the stage of dirty politics.

Our correspondent reports that Ameh had explained that  the defection of former officials of the party to PDP and back to PPA was not as a result of love for the party but for selfish reasons.

According to the statement, Ameh said that the recent act of shutting the gates of the secretariat by some of these former officials against the newly elected executive members “is a thing of shame ’’.

‘’We are fully aware of the fact that the former officials of the party having failed in a bid to actualise their goals under the PDP and are suddenly trying to to come back to PPA for their selfish reasons and not as a result of their love for the party,’’ he said.

According to the statement, the efforts made by such officials like the former National Secretary Dahiru Abdullahi have resorted to all sorts of tactics to attempt to muscle their way back into the party.

He said that these individuals were hiding behind employees of the party to embarrass elected officials.

‘’They have stooped so low to the extent that employees shut-out elected officials of the party out of the party premises and forced them to hold a news conference in front of the secretariat gates.

‘’The party is not a personal property or company that individuals can use to run their own personal and selfish agenda.

‘’It should be based on principles and ideas. Anyone who has the party’s interest at heart will not allow himself to be an instrument of destruction to the party,’’ Ameh said.

He said that all these would not deter the efforts the newly elected executives in their bid to return the party to its former pedestal as one of the foremost and most recognised political parties in Nigeria.

According to the statement, Ameh said that although the party’s activities were temporarily halted following the exit of the party’s stalwarts, the new face of PPA debunks the notion that the party had closed shop, as the party’s existence did not depend on any individual or group.