Opposition is not suppose to be synonymous with hate, but this action is tilting towards that direction.
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has refused to hang the official portrait of President Muhammadu Buhari at the party’s national secretariat, about 5 months after its defeat.
Over 100 days after the President assumed office, the PDP has yet to hang Buhari's official portrait at any of the offices in its Wadata House national secretariat, located at Zone 5, Abuja.
“We will never hang his portrait in this office, because President Buhari is not known to our party.
He is not a leader of our party and therefore we will never put his portrait here. We are a political party, very partisan and therefore, we are not going to hide that,” National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh, told Punch on Tuesday.
The defeat in the last elections was the first to be suffered by PDP since the return of democracy in 1999.
Before now, the party has always been hanging the portraits of all the Presidents at the party’s reception area as well as the National Executive Committee and National Working Committee halls.
Reacting, the APC National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, expressed shock at Metuh’s comment.
“This is ridiculous and we have no comment. Let Nigerians judge the PDP on this matter,” he said.
He added that the PDP spokesman had a shallow understanding of the concept of opposition politics.
