Killing PDP should be national priority –Mohammed

OCTOBER 20, 2013  

Dr. Junaid Mohammed
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A Second Republic parliamentarian, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, has urged Nigerians to ensure that the Peoples Democratic Party does not survive.

In a telephone interview with SUNDAY PUNCH, Mohammed, who is the national coordinator of the Coalition of Northern Politicians, Academics, Professionals and Businessmen, said ‘killing’ the PDP should be a national priority, not the proposed national conference.

He described PDP as a party full of contradictions, which has failed to deliver on its promises in the past 14 years.

He said, “PDP is so full of contradictions. If PDP is allowed to survive, democracy would be sacrificed in Nigeria. I believe that there will never be democracy in Nigeria until the PDP is destroyed; whether it is destroyed by external forces or it is destroyed by its own internal contradictions, by which it is made to implode.

“There will no democracy; no peace and security in this country until the PDP is destroyed. It is the responsibility of any patriot to ensure that PDP is encouraged to destroy itself. Once we do that, we can now start asking fundamental questions.”

He said the proposed national conference will not yield results if the PDP remains in power.

“When a party has failed to deliver on its own promise, I think it’s only fair for it to be allowed to die,” he said.

Mohammed also dismissed insinuations that the crisis in the PDP was a northern agenda. He said the crisis was bound to happen, because of the wrong philosophy of the party.

He also accused PDP of abusing power and causing division in the country.

Mohammed said, “I’ve never respected the political philosophy of the PDP. It’s all mantra; zoning and rotation, because they are not actionable. The system of zoning and rotation is so full of contradictions and it is simply unworkable in a country such as ours.

“Instead of making our contextual problems more manageable, it has made our country worse. Now, every Nigerian thinks of his region, zone, state, local government and even within the local government areas, people are talking about separate wards. To the PDP, power is something to be abused. When it is your turn, you abuse power and then it must be my turn some day to assume power and abuse it.”