President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday dissolved the Presidential Declaration Committee with a plea to all PDP aspirants to shun do-or-die tendencies during party primaries and the general elections.
Jonathan spoke when he hosted members of the committee to a luncheon at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The president said that the world would not end for those who would lose, adding that their loss might mean that God had better responsibilities for them.
Some stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party in the North-West zone in Kaduna on Wednesday asked President Goodluck Jonathan to sack the party’s acting National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, for incompetence.
They said the continued crisis between PDP Senators and the Presidency was as a result of the inability of Mu’azu to resolve the matter amicably.
Besides, they added that the political instability in the zone and the North-East would consume the party ahead of the 2015 elections if not properly handled by competent leader like the ex-National Chairman of the party, Dr. Bamanga Tukur.
Former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, who revealed on Tuesday that he was forced to resign his position as the national chairman of the party, has vowed to preside over the forthcoming PDP convention.
President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday formally dissolved the Dr. Haliru Bello-led Presidential Declaration Committee at a luncheon he organised in honour of the members at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The committee was the brain behind the President’s formal declaration on November 11 in Abuja.
Jonathan boasted at the event that he is yet to see any party that will beat the PDP in the general elections.
He said while opposition parties would continue to make noise, they cannot beat the ruling party because PDP does things differently.
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, John Oyegun, on Wednesday, alleged that President Goodluck Jonathan plans to extend the state of emergency in the three insurgent-ravaged North-Eastern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, so elections would not hold in those states.
He said by that action, about five million people in the states would be disenfranchised and the president’s re-election bid a foregone conclusion.
The president has requested the National Assembly to approve the extension of the emergency rule in the three states.
Mr. Oyegun, who made the allegation at the APC ‘Salvation’ rally in Abuja, said Mr. Jonathan daily engaged in idle talks about a total war on Boko Haram, but wondered what the government had been doing since the first time emergency rule was imposed in the states.
Plead on them o, the life always continue when the leaders leave the post o, so we have to be very very careful o.