We'll Never Hang Buhari’s Portrait In Our Offices – PDP

After 100 days of President Buhari’s leadership in the country, it has been revealed that the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has refused to put up the official portrait of Buhari at the party’s national secretariat.Olisah Metuh

Investigations made by The Punch revealed how the PDP is reluctant in the tradition of hanging the president’s portrait at any of their offices in its Wadata House national secretariat, located at Zone 5, Abuja. Collaborating the revelation yesterday, Tuesday, September 8, the party’s national publicity secretary, Olisa Metuh said that although PDP has removed the official portrait of former president Goodluck Jonathan, it would never hang that of the present president on its walls.

“We will never hang his portrait in this office, because President Buhari is not known to our party. He is not a leader of our party and therefore we will never put his portrait here. We are a political party, very partisan and therefore, we are not going to hide that.”

Recall that President Buhari who contested on the platform of the All Progressives Congress(APC)  beat the PDP candidate, former president Jonathan  hands down in the March 28 election. This is the first time PDP will be defeated since the return of democracy in 1999. Before now, the party has always been hanging the portraits of all the Presidents at the party’s reception area as well as the National Executive Committee and National Working Committee halls within the secretariat.

Metuh said the APC also did not hang the portrait of Jonthan in its offices before the former President was defeated in the March 28 election.

“Can you find out if the APC had the portrait of former President Jonathan in their office before he was defeated? That is just it,” he told The Punch correspondent. When asked whether the party was taking its own pound of flesh, Metuh said no but that since Buhari “is not a member of our party, we won’t put his portrait here.”

However, when the APC national publicity secretary, Mr. Lai Mohammed, was contacted over this issue, he was totally shocked. He said: “This is ridiculous and we have no comment. Let Nigerians judge the PDP on this matter.”