Patience's attitude made us to fail — PDP chief

PATIENCE JONATHAN
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Mr. Osom Makbere,Bayelsa State publicity secretary of the Peoples
Democratic Party has said President Goodluck Jonathan lost the March
28 presidential election due to international and domestic
conspiracies.
Makbere, who is also a lawyer, stated this in an exclusive interview
in Yenagoa on Friday.
He said the divisions in the PDP fold and the overbearing attitude of
the President's wife, Dame Patience, also contributed to the
president's loss.
Giving insight on the failure of the President at the poll, Makbere
said, "History has stated that no failure, defeat or loss is a product
of a single factor. Jonathan's loss could be blamed on a multiplicity
of interwoven causes.
"Jonathan was a victim and target of international cum domestic
esoteric codes and conspiracies. On the international level, the
passage of the anti-gay legislation led to criticisms and face-off
with the US, and the West.
"The strides made in the economic sphere, especially domestic rice
promotion, calculated by the Jonathan administration to flip economic
growth, and boost import substitution, also negatively alerted the
West. The shift to China for our railway transformation, and recently,
the migration to Russia for arms and ammunition to quelling the
insurgency also signalled to the West that Jonathan had started
constituting a self-reliant and dependent nation-state, a feat seen
too tall by the US and their allies in the West.
"The aforesaid international factors found room to flourish given the
obstinacy and impudence on the part of Mrs. Jonathan. The end result
of her personal ambition to plant 'self-made' governors triggered
face-offs with some governors."
Makbere also opined that the All Progressives Congress will perform
worse than the PDP at the centre.
He said, "I can tell you that this APC will be worse than the PDP as
there is already imminent fear of implosion.
"In Kano, for instance, the APC got all 40 constituencies. This meant
that none of the PDP candidates were popular enough to emerge but, the
PDP maintained their calm and stoicism.
"We do not know what the APC wants. Whenever they win, the PDP
congratulates them, but whenever the PDP wins, the APC would induce
the election observers and the electoral officers to call for a re-run
or cancellation. That is the zenith of desperation."
But Secretary, Bayelsa APC, Mr. Marlin Daniel, said the statement that
APC would perform worse than the PDP was misinformed and unfortunate.
He said that APC parades men and women of proven integrity and
impeccable track records of performance.
He said, "It is obvious Nigerians have seen the people in the APC. The
international community knows the pedigree of people in APC
leadership. When you go to states controlled by the APC you will see
what is on ground.
"The President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, is an incorruptible man.
So, for anybody to say that APC will perform worse than the PDP is a
child's talk, mere campaign of calumny and propaganda.
"APC is a revolution and nobody can stop it. God's hand is in this
revolution that is why the PDP lost despite all the money they spent
to remain in power.
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