The leadership of the newly registered Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) has pointedly told the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BOT), Tony Anenih, to concentrate on fixing his party that is fast disintegrating rather than dabbling into the affairs of other parties.
Reacting to statement credited to Anenih, describing the registration of PDM as political trickery, the leadership of the new party called on him to stop insulting the credibility of INEC.
In a statement issued by the Media Advisor to the PDM National Chairman, Alaba Yusuf, the party reminded the ruling party’s BoT Chairman that the beauty of democracy is in freedom of association and speech.
The statement reads in full, “The masquerade behind the anti – Peoples Democratic Movement, PDM, the newly registered party, has finally been unveiled.
“Chief Anenih’s recent press statement is a positive advertisement for PDM and what it stands for.
“There’s no turning back the hands of time. PDM is an idea whose time has come. We are not going to waste our time exchanging words with those who want to live in the past, and continue to impoverish the ordinary Nigerian.
“Let the PDP BoT Chairman resolve the crises tearing his party and the country apart; before dabbling into the affairs of another party over which he has no control.
“Sadly, Chief Anenih’s description of PDM’s registration as “a political trickery” is nothing but an insult to the electoral laws and the credibility of INEC.
“The beauty of democracy lives on the principles of freedom of speech, association and the right to exist politically.
