Founding member of the People’s Democratic Party, Prof. ABC Nwosu, has said that he is very happy with PDP’s current crisis. He, however, revealed that he is pleased because he knows the party will recover eventually.
Speaking during an interview with PUNCH, Nwosu revealed that if PDP wasn’t going through its current divided phase, Nigerians wouldn’t have seen how bad the alternative government is.
He shared that he remembers President Bola Tinubu taking Olusegun Obasanjo to court many years ago over non democratic tendencies, but the current president has been guilty of the same things he fought against in the past.
According to him, if PDP’s current crisis didn’t expose the inefficiency the APC has constantly displayed since it took over power, Nigerians wouldn’t have seen the shameful Rivers State decision that led to a democratic government suspending another democratic government.
“Well, I’m very happy for the present crisis because I have faith that it will recover. Why do I say so? Because it’s good that APC has shown us what the alternative is. Where the old woman cries at night and the child dies at midnight and is legitimized in the morning by the people who should uphold it.
This is an Igbo proverb, which translated means that … If you look at what happened (in the National Assembly), you have both House of Representatives and the Senate sitting, the members themselves, I don’t know how they determined those that constituted two thirds majority, that’s not the kind of democracy I know. The Constitution is clear.
I was once a political adviser to the president before becoming minister, and I recall that the president (Bola Tinubu) took President (Olusegun) Obasanjo to court over non democratic tendencies. Nigerians can judge now how far we have gone along the road. Almost every day, the old woman cries at night now and in the morning, the child dies, the frequency is too much. So if PDP didn’t give way, we would not have known that it could ever become like that.
We would never know that a democratic government could also suspend a democratic government. Very often, I hear people say sub-national level, there’s no nonsense, I repeat, no nonsense like that in a federation. Federation is central government, it is not national government, is central government and coordinate governments of federating units,” he said.
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On Nnamdi Kanu, Nwosu disclosed that his detention is absolutely senseless to him because the court has already ordered his release.
The PDP chieftain noted that not releasing Kanu after the court’s order a very long time ago is the FG’s way of challenging the judiciary and calling its bluff.
“Painful, very painful and his detention is completely senseless to me. People have forgotten what it is supposed to achieve, or not achieve even. The court has said release him.
Wasn’t Nnamdi Kanu the chairman of APGA (All Progressives Grand Alliance), London? Wasn’t Nna.mdi Kanu a member of MASSOB (Movement for the Survival of Biara)? What are you detaining him for? The court has said release him, release him.
In my sickness, illness, about midnight, I read an apology by Godwin Kanu Agabi, SAN and I cried and I called him about midnight and said ‘thank you for all of us.’
When he was apologizing for Nnamdi Kanu and urging the Federal Government to release him, everything that Godwin Agabi said is exactly how I feel. I have to go and find him and thank him.
Anybody who thinks that once you release Nnamdi Kanu, Biafra will spring up from the blues, from the roots, from the stem, the leaves fall down, release him, we are not saying it will not fall down, release him, court said release him, release him. Not releasing him is like asking somebody, what can you do? So court said release him. I won’t release him. Do your worst. That’s how many people feel,” he added.
