Ex-PDP Governors blast Jonathan; vow to scuttle second term ambition

State Governors who left the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)

last year to form the New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) before

finally merging with the All Progressives Congress (APC) have vowed to

abort the second term ambition of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.

'We have noted President Jonathan's claim made last Thursday at the

National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the PDP in the federal

capital, to the effect that PDP is not missing us, as well as his

boast that some of us cannot win even our wards during elections,' the

ex-PDP Governors said in a statement issued today in Port Harcourt by

former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct nPDP, Chief Eze

Chukwuemeka Eze.
The former PDP Governors described Jonathan's claims as 'both shocking

and ridiculous considering that he wouldn't have been President today

if not for our sacrifices which ensured that he won both the PDP

Presidential Primaries and the 2011 presidential election.'

Eze cited Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rives State as an

example. 'It is on record that Rivers State under Amaechi's watch made

Jonathan's presidency possible by delivering over two million votes in

his favour during the 2011 presidential polls. For the same Dr.

Jonathan to turn around, only three years down the line, to describe

Governor Amaechi as a political lightweight who cannot win his ward

speaks volumes about how ungrateful and uncharitable a man he is,'

Chief Eze said.
The former nPDP Spokesman berated PDP for commending and

congratulating President Jonathan on his handling of the security

challenges facing the country, including the Boko Haram insurgency. He

said: 'By commending President Jonathan at a time when he has proved

to be completely overwhelmed by the security challenges confronting

Nigeria, PDP has demonstrated without any reasonable doubt that it has

lost its sense of value, which explains why it is celebrating a

clueless and spineless President who watched helplessly as insurgents

took away and has kept over 200 innocent schoolgirls, and who

continues to watch as Nigerians are slaughtered like chicken on a

daily basis. It is unfortunate that PDP should be commending a

sleeping, confused and misguided Presidency without showing any

sympathy for the wanton killing of innocent Nigerians by outlaws. PDP

should hide its ugly face in shame. Nigerians should get ready to oust

this ruthless party that has brought hardship and shame to our

country, come 2015.'
As for President Jonathan, Chief Eze told him 'to prepare for a grand

political war come 2015 as the ex-PDP Governors, working in concert

with other democratic forces in APC, are battle-ready to send him and

his directionless PDP packing from the Presidential Villa in Abuja so

as to rescue Nigeria from the doom towards which Jonathan and PDP are

inevitably leading the country to.'