ACN Blasts PDP Over 2012 Election Plans

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN)
has described the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) declaration to reclaim lost
states in the 2015 general elections as “greedy’’.

Mr Sunny Moniedafe, a former FCT
Chairman of ACN, told The Tide’s source in a telephone interview that the PDP’s
declaration should be taken seriously.

The source recalled that the PDP National
Chairman, Dr Bamanga Tukur, said the party had set for itself a target, to
reclaim the states it lost in previous polls for the 2015 general elections.

Tukur made the remark while
receiving members of the party from the South-West, led by Chief Oyewale
Fasawe, in Abuja.

“The PDP wants to claim every state
in Nigeria because of greed for power,’’ Moniedafe said.

According to him, any state that is
taken by another party showed that the party is not performing to the standard
expected by the people.

“If PDP manifesto is good and its
candidate is performing, people will vote for it because it is the candidates’
performance that will make people vote for the party.

“But if the party can just make a
declaration and think it will reclaim states without performing, it is a lie,
it will not work,’’ the former FCT chieftain of the ACN said.

Moniedafe said that at the moment,
all the ACN governors were performing, adding that it would be difficult for
the PDP to reclaim the South-West.

Bishop Gabriel Omoruyi, the
spokesman for the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in Lagos State, said it
would not be possible for the ruling party to reclaim the lost states.

“The PDP has the right to say
whatever it wants to say, but it will not be possible for it to reclaim lost
states in 2015.

“Other political parties are not
sleeping, they are working as well, to take over more states from the PDP,’’
Omoruyi said.

Malam Yunusa Tanko, the National
Chairman of the National Conscience Party (NCP), said it would be tough for the
ruling party in 2015.

“We are going to attempt to win not
only one state but more states, and so are more political parties planning to
wrest power from the PDP in 2015,’’ Tanko said.

Tanko said that for the ruling party
to say it was reclaiming, meant it had already accepted it was losing.