The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has refused to hang the official portrait of President Muhammadu Buhari at the party’s national secretariat, checks by The PUNCH have revealed.
Over 100 days after the President assumed office, the PDP has yet to hang his portrait at any of the offices in its Wadata House national secretariat, located at Zone 5, Abuja.
The party has also said it would never put Buhari’s portraits on its walls though it has removed that of the former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, who ruled on the platform of the PDP.
“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,” National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh, told our correspondent on the telephone on Tuesday.
Jonathan was also the presidential candidate of the former ruling party during the last general election but he was defeated by Buhari, who was the presidential candidate of the opposition All Progressives Congress.
The defeat was the first to be suffered by the PDP 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 our 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.”
The APC National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Lai Mohammed, expressed shock at Metuh’s comment.
“This is ridiculous and we have no comment. Let Nigerians judge the PDP on this matter,” Mohammed said.
He said the PDP spokesman had a shallow understanding of the concept of opposition politics.
Meanwhile, work has stopped at the new secretariat of the PDP, located in the Central Business District, Abuja.
Investigations by our correspondent indicated that contractors handling the project were only doing skeletal jobs at the site.
When our correspondent visited the site on Tuesday, there was no visible job being done at the site.
It was gathered that the cost of the project was put at N11.5bn when it was awarded some years ago. At completion, the building is expected to have 12 floors, with two other floors serving as the car park.
The party had claimed that the project was being financed from levies and contributions from members.
When a fund-raising dinner was organised a few years ago, the party was able to realise about N5bn, and the project, which started more than four years ago, was to be delivered in 126 weeks.
The former National Chairman of the party, under whose leadership the project commenced, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, had then said that the complex, when completed, would strengthen the capacity of the PDP to discharge its role effectively in Africa.
The party had claimed on January 5, 2015 that it was going to spend part of the N21.8bn it realised from the party’s fund-raising on the party’s secretariat.
A former Minister for Information and the Chairman of the party’s Fund-raising Committee, Prof. Jerry Gana, had said the money donated to the PDP was not meant for the campaign of the defeated Jonathan alone.

http://www.punchng.com/news/well-never-hang-buharis-portrait-in-our-offices-pdp/

me too

How does that affect PMB and his work?

This is simply an exercise in futility, PDP case is seriously a tale of woe, typical of the story of an unserious housewife.... I laugh in Otueke
To what end will your vain denial affects the legitimacy of President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR? Console yourself and grow up man.
These are the same people that betray their boss Jonathan. If truly you confessed GEJ is your hero then do as he has done, how? Simply concede defeat and move on if possible Oliseh Metuh should call Lai Mohammed and congratulate him.

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Sour losers!!!, after 16 years of squandering and massive looting they are still battling with the emotions of being the opposition rather than revamp the party with younger and disciplined politicians who might sway the heart of Nigerians after 8 years of Buhari because the inevitable truth is, Buhari would be re-elected for a second term if he decides to run and there is absolutely nothing PDP can do about it.

It doesn't matter if PMB's portrait hangs in PDP's secretarite, rather what is of importance is the portrait which his achievement is going to hang in the concience of Nigerians which will outlive the secretariat building.

The hypocrisy of APC is epic.




I don't agree with disrespect for the office of the president but APC lacks moral ground to complain about any disrespect for the office of the president judging from the way their members ( chieftains, elders, members and supporters ) exuded venom of vituperation on former President Jonathan.


They disrespected the office of the president thinking they were doing it to "Jonathan" forgetting that what goes around comes around.



Now they want people people to respect the office of the president because it is "Buhari".

Like it matters

Buuahahaha People's Wailing Party choi the thing pain am ohh!

e still de do them like magic say no be them dey power oo.


your wailing keep the country moving. you better accept defeat or since you are the loosing party o think is good you hang the ex President's pix.

by doing so you have shown your indiscipline in public.






e still de pain?

PDP is a political party so their office is not under or has any allegiance to the government. They reserve the right to hand the portrait of PMB or not.

I don't know why APC supporters loose their minds and forget themselves whenever they hear Buhari even when the government is not favouring them.

Must you people suffer and shout sai Buhari at the same time?

Smh

Meanwhile I don't support any party, I only support good governance and to the best of my knowledge, I'm yet to see one.

Buhari is the President and there is nothing you can do about it, so live with it.

dt

POWEROFPEACE:
Buhari is the President and there is nothing you can do about it, so live with it.

gbam

Lol. See Painment! Anyway, they are not bound by any known nigerian law to hang President Buhari's portrait.

It would just have raised a moral issue if only the APC hung Jonathan's own in their own secretariat when he was president.

Anyway, e be like say news scarce yesterday, so the reporter just wan fill space

See anger. Does this stop Buhari from performing?

vedaxcool:
Buuahahaha People's Wailing Party choi the thing pain am ohh!

And again I say, to slap this Olisa Metuh dey hungry me and one day I must achieve it.

Useless wailers How does dat affect d price of one cup of garri

babadem2much:
e still de do them like magic say no be them dey power oo.


your wailing keep the country moving. you better accept defeat or since you are the loosing party o think is good you hang the ex President's pix.

by doing so you have shown your indiscipline in public.






e still de pain?

Is it against the law? No.

Therefore, the PDP has right to decide whose picture to hang in their secretariat. They can put that of Kanye West if they so desire