Leading opposition party, the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) yesterday lambasted the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) for saying there is “No Vacancy in Aso Rock.”
Spokesman of the party, Rotimi Fashakin, while reacting to the display of the campaign posters of Jonathan for 2015 elections said, “If Dr Jonathan is interested in contesting the Presidency in 2015, we say why not?”
However, what is of grave concern is the portent of the posters: ‘No vacancy in Aso-rock in 2015. Is this the language of a democratic practice? They had better keep quiet.”
“Is there not a fundamental defect in our political system where supposed leaders transform into monsters? Have we not trodden this pathway before in which another leader of the same political stock as president declared an election a ‘do or die’ process? Is the president likely to shed off civility and put on the garb of African leaders that have shown desperation in their final descent from power?” he said.
Fahakin added that “Is this not an early warning that results of the 2015 Presidential election have been written and kept in wrap just for the formal announcement? Is this a feverish response the Presidency of the impending merger of the major opposition Parties?”
He further noted that whatever interest the poster controversy is meant to serve will push the present administration into more crisis.
In the last few days, poster endorsing President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election have spring up in some places in the nation’s capital, Abuja and its environs.
