PDP can’t stop our merger talks -ACN

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has accused the Peoples Democratic  Party (PDP) of suffering from deep paranoia over the ongoing merger talks involving key opposition parties, including the CPC, as well as other progressive forces in the country.
 In a statement issued in Lagos on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said there is no better indication that the PDP is deeply worried by the talks than the resort to downright lies and abuse of the opposition parties  by the PDP spokesman, Olisa Metuh, in order to discredit the talks.
 It said that in Mr. Metuh’s latest mudslinging, blackmail and name-calling against the opposition, he described the ACN as a ‘’one-man party’’ and the CPC as  ‘’believing in violence.’’
 ‘’The truth of the matter is that PDP is terrified of the outcome of the merger talks. From the commencement of these talks, PDP has been having nightmares. However the truth of the matter is that these talks have the blessing of a significant chunk of the leadership of the PDP who, for the time being, cannot come out publicly.
‘’Well, Mr. Metuh, here is a message you may want to convey to your paymasters: No amount of name calling, blackmail or character assassination can stop an idea whose time has come.
“And if the PDP is so sure that the talks will fail, why is it even bothering to make any comments at all? We are comforted by the wise  saying that anywhere you see the sign that reads “No Thoroughfare”, then it means there is a road there. PDP’s days as a political party are numbered with the assured success of these talks,’’ ACN said.
The party said the tagging of the ACN as a one-man party by the PDP has become a meaningless cliche, adding: ‘’All we have to say is that those who have the good fortune of belonging to the ACN know that there is no political party with a more robust democratic practice than the ACN.
 ‘’As a matter of fact, the usual remarks of former PDP members who joined our party is that they never believed any political party can be as democratic and inclusive in arriving at decisions affecting the party and its members as they have found in   ACN.”