The founder and president of the socio-cultural group, Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, has commended the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for a successful national convention held on Saturday.
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar emerged the presidential candidate of the PDP at the convention.
Fasehun, in a statement, said the PDP’s convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, had made a popular decision by electing Abubakar as its flag bearer.
His words: “PDP has done the very needful by giving Nigerians a formidable opposition candidate who not only is capable of giving the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) a good fight at the general elections but stands an enormous chance of actually winning the coming presidential polls.”
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The OPC leader who urged the other 11 presidential to close ranks and throw their weight behind the winner of the contest, said that they should respect the wishes of the party’s delegates.
“The task to enthrone a truly democratic government of Nigerians, by Nigerians and for Nigerians will not be an easy one, and all hands must be on deck to give Nigerians a government of their dream,” he said.
Fasehun praised the PDP convention for once more demonstrating that the party remained the country’s foremost custodian of democracy as well as an organisation with an unbroken consistence in maintaining internal democracy.
Showering encomiums on Abubakar, the OPC leader said that the PDP presidential candidate was a foremost nationalist, whose personal character, business successes, administrative experience and formidable political credentials marked him out as the leader Nigeria needed at its trying times.
“I became familiar with Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in the Third Republic, when we were both leading figures in the Social Democratic Party, SDP.
“The Atiku I know is an experienced businessman, a detribalised Nigerian and a conscientious politician who, given the chance, is capable of taking the country to great heights in the areas of the economy, education, security and infrastructure.”
