PRESIDENTIAL aspirant on the platform of the Social Democratic Party, Professor Iyorwuese Hagher has called on his supporters across the country to vote the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in the coming presidential election.
Hagher told newsmen yesterday in Makurdi that he decided to support the PDP presidential candidate following the decision of the SDP National Working Committee to endorse the APC candidate without the knowledge of the stakeholders in the party.
It will be recalled that the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) had on Thursday endorsed the APC and its candidate, President Mohammadu Buhari, for the coming Presidential election.
Hagher who described the decision of the party NWC as unpopular said that the action negates the spirit and the motto of the SDP to support the APC in the forthcoming presidential election.
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According to Hagher, ‘the decision as ‘extremely unpopular, largely motivated by nothing more than selfishness, greed and arrogance of the SDP leadership’, adding that the leaders had killed the social democratic spirit and dream of the SDP to be the third political force in the country.
“I Professor Ambassador Iyorwuese Hagher and my team the ” Revolution of Hope,” have received with shock, disbelief and horror: the decision of the party leaders of the SDP to support the APC in the forthcoming presidential elections!
“This action totally negates the spirit and the motto of the SDP which is ”Peace Unity and Progress.” The action amounts to one political step forward, two lock steps backwards.”
” It is no longer the SDP of Moshood Abiola. They have systematically destroyed democracy in the SDP and put up the party for sale,” Hagher said.
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