Follow @9jaLife STALWARTS of the Peoples Democratic Party and those of the yet-to-be-registered All Progressives Congress again were at each other's throats on Wednesday with the PDP saying the APC was "being run like a cult." National Chairman of the PDP, Bamangar Tukur, told journalists at an interactive session in Abuja on Wednesday, "Most of the people in APC now are original members of the PDP and I can assure you that we have commenced talks to bring them back to where they originally belonged, which is the PDP. "They are coming back, because some of them have told me that their aspirations may not be met in the APC because of the burning ambitions of some individual members. They don't want a party that is being run like a cult," A spokesman for one of the parties promoting the APC, Rotimi Fashakin, of the Congress for Progressive Change, however called the PDP "an empire of lies." "The PDP is an empire of lies; an organisation filled with deceit of the people. "When people leave the PDP it is difficult to go back. If a former Vice-President left the PDP and since his return it has been a struggle to win even his ward, you know which party is run like a cult. Is it APC that is yet to be a party or the PDP?" Fashakin asked. Tukur however said that the country was gradually moving towards a two-party arrangement with the APC coming into being out of the merger of Action Congress of Nigeria, All Nigeria Peoples Party, and a faction of the All Progressive Grand Alliance. He also defended the second term ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015, saying he had every right to contest on the platform of the PDP. "It (the President's ambition) is in order in politics. Jonathan is the President under our party and what is wrong if he decides to run? The others have the same opportunity to promote their candidate, if they have," Tukur said. Jonathan's qualification to contest in 2015, in view of an alleged pact with the PDP governors to serve only one term, has generated controversy recently. Meanwhile, the Niger State [...]
