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NASS Leadership: PDP Group Accuses Northern Leaders Of Pursuing Anti-Christian, Southern Agenda

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Nationalist Group (PNG) has accused some Northern leaders within the party of working with the All Progressives Congress (APC) to railroad PDP Senators and House of Representatives members-elect to produce Northern and non-Christian President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives of the 10th National Assembly.

The group in a statement issued by National Coordinator, Dr Chibuike Tobias Nwosu, and Secretary Barr. Osamudieme Omoruyi stated that the activities of these party leaders make PDP appear to be anti-South and anti-Christian.

“The anti-South disposition of these leaders painfully alienated our party in the South and cost our party the low-hanging presidential election and majority seat in the two chambers of the National Assembly,” the statement added.

It further alleged the suppression and denial of Southerners and Christians in the PDP, access to leadership positions both within the party and the country at large.

According to the group, the implication of ethnic and religious politics allegedly being pursued by some Northern PDP leaders would be an imposition of a Northern non-Christian President of the Senate on the National Assembly after 16 years Northerners have held the position.

“For clarity, in the last eight years, non-Christian northerners, Senator Bukola Saraki and Senator Ahmed Lawan presided as Senate President,” it noted.

The group warned of the danger of the PDP giving Nigerians the impression of supporting an “undemocratic and anti-Nigerians scenario of the non-Christian president, vice president, Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives and Chief Justice of the Federation.

“It is therefore vexatious, distressing, provocative and disuniting if the PDP allows itself to be used to foist another northerner as Senate President.

“We, therefore, caution the PDP to note that treading in the direction of allowing its Senators and Reps-elect to be railroaded to support a Northern, non-Christian Senate President will not only diminish the PDP and end its way to political recovery as it might lead to a mass exodus of well-meaning, nationalist-minded members from our fold.”

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