PDP governors caused Jonathan’s fall, says Sani

Shehu Sani, a senator representing Kaduna central at the national assembly, says Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors lack the moral right to accuse President Muhammadu Buhari of returning Nigeria to dictatorship.

After the PDP governors met in Bayelsa on Tuesday, they issued a statement urging the international community and civil society organisations to call the federal government to order, alleging that there seemed to be “a steady slide of this country into a dictatorship”.

But responding on Wednesday, Sani observed that the same governors had the chance to speak out against dictatorship under Ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, but they chose to sing his praises at all times, eventually leading to the fall of both Jonathan and the PDP.

“This statement is in direct response to the resolution of the meeting of the PDP governors where they opined that ‘Nigeria is sliding into a dictatorship’ under PMB,” he said.

“The PDP governors submission reflects the desperate screaming of political pirates on a sinking ship. The governors lack the moral right to preach the gospel of freedom and democracy; the very people whom before their very eyes security apparatus of the state under Jonathan were systematically and periodically unleashed against governors and states under the then opposition.

“The governors kept mute when President GEJ’s security forces denied Governors Amaechi and Oshiomole’s planes from taking off and landing, when President GEJ’s security agencies raided APC data offices in Lagos, when GEJ’s security agents laid siege on Rivers government house.

“The governors served Jonathan’s administration as pillars of tyranny; they lacked the liver and the heart to tell Jonathan the truth; they cowardly sang his praises in an obsequies procession until they led their leader and their party over the cliff.”

Describing the PDP governors as “debris of a cancerous era” and “remains of our dark, despicable and dingy past”, he said Nigeria is on a recuperation process, matching further away from the era of political decadence and pestilence which symbolised the PDP years.

“President Muhammadu Buhari is not a dictator but a leader committed to fumigating the political space from the lethargic legacies of the PDP,” he said.

“PDP governors have the constitutional right to play the role of an opposition in our democracy but we must not in anyway forget the menace they represented just yesterday.

“PDP governors should apologise to Nigerians for the paralysis, the tragedy and the human misery their party left behind. Under Jonathan, the security apparatus of the state became an armed wing of the ruling party and an instrument of repression and political witch hunting and persecution.

“PDP governors’ rantings are evil echoes from a dark forest. I call on PMB to remain focused in his mission to end the inherited culture of malfeasance and opacity of the PDP.”