Politics
‘Like APC, we won’t hang Buhari portrait on our wall’
The groundswell of opposition against the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has taken a new dimension that stretches to the office of the president as the Labour Party (LP) and the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) have vowed that they would never hang the portrait of President Muhammadu Buhari in their offices.
They now join the main opposition People Democratic Party (PDP), which had earlier said that the president was not known to the party and as such it would not hang his portrait in the party’s secretariat.
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The National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Olisa Metuh, had explained that it was a partisan decision not to hang the president’s portrait in the party’s secretariat.
“We will never hang his portrait in this office because President Buhari is not known to our party. He is not a leader of our party and therefore we will never put his portrait here. We are a political party, very partisan and therefore, we are not going to hide that”, he said.
But the LP and the PPA premised their decision on what they referred to as payback time.
They claimed that throughout the tenure of the immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan, the APC refused to allow the president’s portrait adorn its walls contrary to the practice in the country, where the president’s portrait is usually seen on the walls of offices.
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