President Goodluck Jonathan has come down heavily on the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC describing the party as undemocratic.
The president said this on the heels of botched ward congress of the APC in many states last Saturday.
Jonathan who made a veiled reference to the leading opposition party said the PDP was more democratic because “it would not cancel ward congresses across the states without considering the wish of its members”.
The President spoke at the South-East PDP rally held in Enugu today tagged.
He said the party was not like another party, where a local government chairman can cancel a ward congress for no justifiable reason and without the peoples opinion.
Jonathan said the PDP is the only political platform in Nigeria where the voice of the people could count and decisions were taken based on the majority and popular vote.
“We are not like one party in this country where one man or a group of people determine how the party is run,” said the President.
He said, “The national chairman of the PDP or any of its governors can’t cancel a ward congress of the party just like that and with impunity. I, as the President, don’t even have the powers to do so, but it is happening in a political party in this country.”
“One party tags itself as progressives but where are they progressing to. It is only in such progressive party that you find an ex-governor determining who gets what and how. Is that what you mean by progressives?”
He said the PDP was the only democratic party that could take Nigeria to join the rest of the democratic world.
“It is the only party where the President would not impose a candidate. It is the only party where people like me from a non-privileged background can stand here and talk,” he said.
The President vowed that the PDP would capture Imo State in 2015 and complete the circle in the South-East.
