PDP is “Pharaoh-like organisation” God has rejected, Tinubu says

A leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC,
Bola Tinubu, has described Nigeria’s ruling
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as a ‘Pharaoh-like
organization,’ from which God has liberated
Nigerians. Mr. Tinubu said the current implosion in
the PDP was as a result of the arrow of confusion
God threw into the ruling party.
Pharaoh was the title of the King of Egypt, who,
according to the Bible, refused to allow the
Israelites go to the Land of Canaan promised by
God.
Mr. Tinubu, who spoke at the weekend through an
aide, Idowu Ajanaku, at a ceremony to unveil the
APC logo in the United States, said God had finally
decided to liberate Nigerians from the ruling party
with the formation of the APC.
The PDP has been entangled in crises leading to
the defection of some of its notable members to
the APC. Five of its governors and many members
in the National and some state Houses of
Assembly decamped to the APC in the last three
months.
“The implosion currently going on in the PDP is
also as a result of the arrow of confusion thrown
into it by God for this monstrous, gigantic,
visionless and directionless octopus cannot be
allowed by God to continue to lead the people to
utter destruction,” Mr. Tinubu said.
“In fact, God has decided to liberate the Nigerian
people from the hands of this Pharaoh-like
organization, hardened in impunity and corruption
by afflicting them with the loss of every capacity to
listen to the voice of reason or repentance.
“APC is not just a party but a mass movement
where people of different ethnic groups, language,
class, religion are welcome without any form of
discrimination. It is the Peoples’ Party; it is the
voice of God.”
Mr. Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, said
the formation of the APC was both divine and
human, to rescue Nigeria from total collapse.
He said the collapse of the country was imminent
due to the alleged ineptitude displayed in
governance by the PDP in the last 15 years, which
he said had taken a toll on Nigeria and Nigerians
without leaving out any sector.
APC was registered as a political party by the
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,
last July following the successful merger talks
between the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, All
Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, Congress for
Progressives Change, CPC, and a section of All
Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA.
According to the former governor, the way and
manner Nigerians were embracing the opposition
party and responding to its clarion call to save the
country were an indication that its formation was
divine.
He said the formation of the APC was ‘a fulfillment
of the prediction of the late sage, Chief Obafemi
Awolowo, a globally accepted icon of progressive
leadership in Africa, in one of his books, ‘The
Hero,’ that ‘the best of the conservative and the
best of the progressive will one day rule Nigeria.’
“The APC has come to fulfill this prediction and will
surely give Nigeria the much desired new lease of
life.”
On the claim by some opponents of the APC that it
had no ideology, Mr. Tinubu explained that its
ideology was to provide massive infrastructure,
employment of the youth, restructuring of the
nation, electricity and power generation and
supply, which the PDP has failed to do.
He called on Nigerians in the Diaspora to join their
kith and kin in the country to save Nigeria and to
look forward to the party forming the government
at the federal level in 2015.
A senator, representing the Ondo North Senatorial
District, Ajayi Boroffice, who was the guest of
honour at the event, saluted the courage of Mr.
Tinubu and other chieftains of the APC including
Bisi Akande, Muhamadu Buhari and Ogbonnaya
Onu for sinking their differences to float the party.
Mr. Boroffice, who defected to the APC from the
Labour Party, LP, two years ago, extolled the
leaders for sacrificing personal gains in order to
banish poverty, impunity and lawlessness in
Nigeria.
He described them as “great men with great minds
for this great season.”
He described the PDP as “a party without vision”
and that as long as the party kept ruling Nigeria,
the country would not move forward.

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