‘No Viable Opposition Party To PDP’

The Lagos State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), Chief Olatunji Shelle said there was no viable opposition that could
wrest power from the party in the 2015 general elections.

Chief Shelle told
newsmen  in Lagos that the party’s
formidable structure would be difficult to penetrate.

He was optimistic that the PDP would floor the opposition
parties completely, even when they formed an alliance.

He made the remark sequel to a comment by Prof. Pat Utomi,
at the Leadership Award Lecture in Abuja, that the opposition, as presently
constituted, was too weak to wrest power from the PDP.

“Irrespective of the differences we have in PDP, there is an
internal mechanism that has helped us to solve our problems. “Election can
never be won without a formidable platform which PDP is known for,’’ he said.

Chief Shelle said that Utomi was not wrong to make such a
statement, because Utomi as “a tactical politician has tried his hands on
becoming the president, and knows how difficult it was.

“The PDP is a formidable platform. In about three elections,
we have won at least 26 out of the 36 states. It is obvious that we are really
on ground”, he declared.

According to him, “all the other parties, including the
Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), are regional parties that are hiding under
the auspices of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

“They do not have the structures to win. If they come on
board to form an alliance, the PDP will again floor them completely,’’ Shelle
said.

Meanwhile, some leaders of the opposition parties are
planning to harmonise their ideologies and form a formidable opposition against
the PDP in 2015.