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Senator Ahmed Aruwa, former chairman of the Senate Committee on Police Affairs and governorship aspirant in Kaduna State over the weekend said that only angels can stop the Peoples' Democratic Party, PDP from wining the Presidential elections come 2015.
Speaking with Nigerian Tribune, on recent defections in the PDP and the Norths agitation for power plus President Jonathan's undeclared re-election bid, Aruwa said, "Talking about some governors and members of the House of Representatives defecting, they are doing this neither for the interest of Tukur nor the PDP. They are inviting chaos in the nation and it will affect every one of us, because only a country where there is no rule or law that you can take a mandate from party ‘A’ to party ‘B’ without regard to the electorate and you expect democracy to thrive. So, to expect a ruling party to become a minority party through the whims and caprices of its own members and not through the electorate, I don’t think anyone of you should support it, unless you all resolve that the military should come back.
"For example, if the PDP today decides to recall each of the governors, senators or members of the House elected on its platform, it requires only 5,000 signatories each. Do you think all those states that the governors said they had left; the PDP would fail to get 5,000 signatories from its own members within that state? The answer is no, the PDP can always get that number of signatories. But, what will be the the consequence of recall, if the PDP elects to do that?
"If you look at what is happening now, it’s like people who have cooked with a pot, fed fat from the pot and are hell bent on breaking the pot so that nobody cooks with it pot again. It’s more or less in that direction. There is nothing good about defection. If you want to defect, resign from your office. But in this case, they are not resigning, and do you expect the PDP to just fold its arm? So, this is a question for each and every one of us as Nigerians. It affects all of us. It’s an invitation to chaos. So, I don’t know what reaction the PDP will take in this direction, but certainly, don’t expect it to sit down and not apply the rules governing such defections, and if that happens, it is politicians that have failed the country.
Aruwa concluded by urging the Northern Elders to desist from fighting President Jonathan as someday the North will need the support of the south to win the Presidency.
Speaking with Nigerian Tribune, on recent defections in the PDP and the Norths agitation for power plus President Jonathan's undeclared re-election bid, Aruwa said, "Talking about some governors and members of the House of Representatives defecting, they are doing this neither for the interest of Tukur nor the PDP. They are inviting chaos in the nation and it will affect every one of us, because only a country where there is no rule or law that you can take a mandate from party ‘A’ to party ‘B’ without regard to the electorate and you expect democracy to thrive. So, to expect a ruling party to become a minority party through the whims and caprices of its own members and not through the electorate, I don’t think anyone of you should support it, unless you all resolve that the military should come back.
"For example, if the PDP today decides to recall each of the governors, senators or members of the House elected on its platform, it requires only 5,000 signatories each. Do you think all those states that the governors said they had left; the PDP would fail to get 5,000 signatories from its own members within that state? The answer is no, the PDP can always get that number of signatories. But, what will be the the consequence of recall, if the PDP elects to do that?
"If you look at what is happening now, it’s like people who have cooked with a pot, fed fat from the pot and are hell bent on breaking the pot so that nobody cooks with it pot again. It’s more or less in that direction. There is nothing good about defection. If you want to defect, resign from your office. But in this case, they are not resigning, and do you expect the PDP to just fold its arm? So, this is a question for each and every one of us as Nigerians. It affects all of us. It’s an invitation to chaos. So, I don’t know what reaction the PDP will take in this direction, but certainly, don’t expect it to sit down and not apply the rules governing such defections, and if that happens, it is politicians that have failed the country.
Aruwa concluded by urging the Northern Elders to desist from fighting President Jonathan as someday the North will need the support of the south to win the Presidency.
