A Former Senator that represented Kaduna Central at the Senate, Shehu Sani, has called on the leadership of the PDP to pick a Minority Leader that will play the role of an opposition to avoid moving the country to what he described as a ‘one-party dictatorship’ state.
In a recent interview with Arise News, the former PDP lawmaker, speaking on the role the Wike-led G5 group played in scuttling the chances of the party in the 2023 elections, alleged that the PDP faction is working in line with the ruling party.
He, therefore, called on the nation’s main opposition party to take serious and decisive actions against those working against the party.
“The G5 is trying to help the ruling party by having a minority leader that will play the card of the ruling party. They are trying to prevent the opposition from playing its role in the process.
“The PDP has not taken serious action against those who undermined and betrayed its course in the 2023 election. The faction that broke away from the PDP, that is, the G5, was determined to work 100% in line with the ruling party, and there is no way you can call yourself an opposition party when the people you are appointing in positions of leadership are simply the agents or stooges of the party.”
Senator Sani also responded to the claims that an aggrieved member and a former governor of the PDP are collaborating with the forces trying to foist a friendly minority leader to the ruling party on the senate.
He said, “The former governor, who is a member of the G5, all he is trying to do, I believe, is have a minority leader that he anoints, which will give him the liver and relevance in terms of his engagement with the ruling party, and that is all that it is.
“The danger is that the opposition will disappear once you have a leader who is there simply to work for the ruling party and the main opposition. The PDP has to be very careful about this because if they allow those among the G5 to have an agent who is going to be the minority leader, they have simply surrendered for the next four years the role that they ought to have played in the national assembly,” he warned.
