Jonathan’s Sole Candidacy Plot Will Destroy PDP – Kaita

An elder statesman and former governor of defunct Kaduna State, Alhaji Lawal Muhammadu Kaita, has declared that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would disintegrate if the party amends its constitution to make provision for President Goodluck Jonathan as its sole candidate in 2015.
In an exclusive interview with LEADERSHIP Sunday yesterday in Katsina, Alhaji Kaita, who is a founding member of the PDP, believes that the emergence of a new president in 2015 can lead to the end of the current insurgency in the north.
He said it would not be an easy task for the advocates of the amendment of the PDP’s constitution to make President Jonathan its sole candidate.
Kaita asked: “How are they going to amend the constitution? Is it at the convention or where? The moment they do that, PDP will disintegrate,” insisting that a free and fair contest was central to the success of the party.
“The PDP is founded on justice and fair play. If you want to win, you must contest to test your popularity and that is what is done all over the world.
Amending the constitution to give way for Jonathan as sole candidate will mark the end of the party,” he asserted.
On the current crisis rocking the ruling party, Alhaji Kaita said it was the outcome of a failed leadership, as according to him, the national chairman of the party had failed to deliver quality leadership.
He insisted that “the current crisis if not repelled, portend grave danger for the PDP.”
Kaita, who is also a frontline member of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) stressed that the current insurgency in the country, particularly in the north, would end with the coming of a new president in 2015, insisting that “the leadership in the country has gone so rotten and so people are taking the law into their hands.”
Commenting on the alarming rate of poverty in the north, Kaita said, “the whole thing is because of lack of good leadership.
Leadership ought to have solved this problem 20 years ago but we did not address the issue seriously.”
He said that the north was the architect of its problems, noting that “our allocation is given to us, we got the land and before the discovery of oil, we were the richest people; we have been exporting cotton and groundnut but now we don’t export anything.”
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