PDP National Chairman Uche Secondus (photo credit: Premium Times)
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is already conceding defeat even before the 2019 elections, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said.
In a statement on Sunday, the ruling APC said the PDP’s interest in its mode of primaries proves that.
The APC said it is “amused by the interest the PDP has in the mode of primary election we adopted to elect our party candidates for the 2019 elections.
“With over 13 million registered APC members, coupled with a large section of non-partisan Nigerian electorate supporting the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC administration, it would seem that the PDP, on account of its attack of APC’s adoption of direct primaries, particularly to elect its presidential candidate, has already conceded defeat even before the 2019 elections.
“We quite understand that the revolutionary and progressive idea of direct primaries to elect party candidates is strange to the PDP.”
The statement accused the PDP of not having internal democracy as it has a history of candidate imposition.