The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) has told its new members who recently defected from the ruling
party, All Progressives Congress (APC), to get ready to fight a (political)
war.
Mr Secondus, who stated this on Wednesday night
at a dinner in honour of the defectors, according to the party, said the battle
to wrest power from the ruling party would be fierce as the APC would not want
to relinquish power easily.
He described the defectors as courageous men
and women, whom he said refused to keep quiet in the face of “flagrant
disobedience of rules in the country.”
“This event is organised in honour of those who
took bold steps to join others to rescue the nation.
“They are heroes. They could have chosen to
remain where they were and even return to their seats (in the National
Assembly), but because they could not see what is going on in the country and
keep quiet; that is why they are here.
“They cannot see the killings, the frame-ups,
the unemployment and the kind of military democracy that cannot even be
described, that they are foisting on us and keep quiet. If we are in the military
government, we would know. Rule of law and court orders are no longer obeyed
“These heroes of democracy who have decided to
move from the ruling party are unusual men. We need to honour them. Their
decision is in defence of democracy.
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