” We will puncture your pomposity, come 2011, Action Congress Nigeria tells PDP
Alhaji Lai Mohammed
Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has sent a shivering message to the People’s Democratic Party that come 2011 election, it would unseat the ruling party from government.
Responding to President Jonathan’s claim that the opposition party had conceded the Presidency to the ruling party in the next year election, ACN said that come 2011, the pomposity of PDP would be punctured adding that ACN has remained the government in waiting.
The party made the assertion in a strongly worded Press statement signed by its spokesman Alhaji Lai Mohammed. The statement further to x-tray PDP’s ineffectiveness at all levels of governance in the country.
Mohammed described the purported comments credited to President Jonathan that the opposition had conceded the presidency to the PDP ahead of the 2011 general elections as the height of wishful thinking.
“While the ACN may have been in position till a few months ago, we have since moved on to become a government in waiting, ready to take Nigeria on a journey to glory and prosperity with the full consent of the people in 2011,” the statement said.
The statement said President Jonathan might have mistaken the parties that joined the PDP in its so-called Government of National Unity for the real opposition, hence the overtly-exultant statement.
He said the party also dispelled the notion that the opposition was ‘spearheading’ PDP’s zoning debate.
He said ACN’s intervention on the issue was to warn against allowing the zoning issue to distract from governance, especially since governance had been seriously affected by the needless debate.
“What we and all other right thinking groups and individuals have said is that the rancorous zoning debate was an internal affairs of the PDP,” he added.
“Zoning poses a serious danger to the unity of the country and that it is distracting from the governance of the country because of the way and manner it is being pursued,” he said.
“That does not amount to ‘spearheading’ the debate or conceding the presidency to the PDP,” Mohammed said in the statement.
He said the party considers President Jonathan’s statement as nothing but a subtle blackmail.
“A party that cannot resolve its problems amicably cannot be expected to provide good governance at any level,” he added.
“The ambivalent resolution that was cobbled together at the PDP NEC meeting in Abuja on Thursday has further shown the confusion that is reigning supreme in the PDP,” Mohammed said.
“In one breath, they endorsed zoning and, in another, they said anyone can run,” he added.
“This deliberate ambiguity is the devil’s alternative for the PDP, and will sound the death knell of the disappearing behemoth next year,” Mohammed said.
The former Action Congress (AC), last week held its national convention in which it formally changed its name to the Action Congress of Nigeria ( ACN).
The convention was held in Lagos and was to formally make public the plan of the party to adopt a new name in a new effort to show the ruling party that henceforth, the opposition meant real business in its effort to wresstlr power from the ruling PDP.
Declaring the convention open last Monday, the national chairman of the party, Bisi Akande, said the new name is necessary so as to accommodate the opposition and create a platform on which they could work together.
He said the party would remain a formidable opposition, which would chase the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) out of power.
“One of the major items on the agenda of the convention is modifying our name from AC to ACN as we modify our name. We must also modify our ways. We must continue to improve on our ways of doing politics,” he said.
The motion to change the name of the party was moved by its secretary, Usman Bugaje and seconded by Sunday Fagbemi from Kwara State.
Other amendments made in the party constitution were the changing of its motto to Democracy for Justice, which motion was moved by Festus Effiong from Akwa Ibom State and was supported by Ramota Saleh from Sokoto State.
The motion to change the color of the flag of the party from green, white and black to green, white, blue and black was moved by Olusegun Adesegun from Ogun State and was supported by Amos Gizo from Plateau State.
The party said its logo remains a hand with a broom, with ACN written on the hand.
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