Jonathan working for Buhari’s government, APC taunts PDP

By Ezekiel O. Kayode

Ex-president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has been lauded a “progressive statesman” by the All Progressive Congress, APC, for working for the party and President Muhammadu Buhari’s government.

The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Yekini Nabena, who spoke Friday on Channels’ Politics Today, was reacting to statements made by the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, over the visit of APC chieftains to President Jonathan’s residency.

The PDP had called the APC “desperate” for visiting Jonathan, who was a president under the aegis of the PDP, on the celebration of his 63rd birthday.

The party had also expressed concerns that Jonathan, who has only one chance left to contest for president again, was being courted with the party’s presidential ticket for 2023.

Jonathan became the first incumbent to lose the presidency by the ballots when he lost to APC’s Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 general elections.

But Nabena, in the programme, maintained that the APC were not “desperate” and Jonathan had been working for Buhari’s government.

“He has been going to all African countries,” Nabena said. “If he is not a progressive person, he won’t have been working for this government.”

Nabena, in an earlier statement, had advised the the “failed” PDP to concentrate on picking itself up from its crisis of confidence rather than concern itself with the courtesy visit of the APC to the ex-president.

The PDP Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Diran Odeyemi, who was also featured on the programme, countered that the failure of the APC on security and the economy leaves the PDP unbothered and assured that more APC governors would defect to the PDP ahead of the 2023 elections.

“Nigerians know the party to vote for in 2023. We believe power belongs to the people and we are relying on the people to make the decision in 2023,” he added.