By HENRY UMORU, Abuja
FORMER Chief Whip of the Senate and a founding member of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Rowland Owie has slammed the ex-National
Chairman of the party, Dr. Ahmadi Ali, alleging that his tenure created
the present security challenge in the country where members of the Boko
Haram have killed many and property destroyed.
Senator Owie who was replying to Ahmadu who had during the week
castigated the Goodluck Jonathan led government as a failure, stressed
that Ali as PDP National Chairman and former President Olusegun Obasanjo
as President of the country created all these problems, adding that the
present administration inherited them.
Senator Ali spoke on Tuesday at the Celebration of former Vice
President Alex Ekwueme at 80 and at an International Colloquium
organised in his honour at the Thisday Dome, Abuja. The former PDP
National Chairman had said, ‘’This idea of six zones was an artificial
creation by late Sanni Abacha to find a way of ruling the country and
those crying about marginalization are just being smart. Those really
marginalized are the West. The clamour for restructuring of the six
zones is not relevant and amending the constitution is not the issue,
but good governance.”
Senator Owie in a text message to Vanguard said, ‘’I was amused when I
read the comments credited to Col. Amadu Ali, that if government was up
and doing, that there would have been no cases of massacre in Mubi etc.
How could Col. Ali say that when the problems today both in government
and our party the PDP were created by the Obasanjo government that
forced Col. Ali on the PDP as national Chairman.
‘’All the ideals of the founding fathers of PDP were rubbished
totally during the tenure Ali as National Chairman of PDP. How can the
smoke call the kettle black? The major part of the problems of Nigeria
today and that of PDP as a party, were sowed in the 8yrs of Obasanjo
government and the period of Col. Ahmadu Ali’s headship of PDP.
‘’These problems are inherited in governance of Nigeria by President
Jonathan and Alhaji Bamanga Tukur as Chairman of PDP. Was it not during
Ahmadu Ali tenure as Chairman of PDP that party nominations in the PDP
became who you know? Party primaries were being teleguided from Wadata
plaza! His tenure as PDP chairman was a disaster.”
Culled: Vanguard
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