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. Copyright PUNCH

Like say this one go add to my bank account

Dear PDP,
THIS IS THE HEIGHT OF FRUSTRATION AND HOOLIGANISM. BUHARI IS STILL YOUR PRESIDENT, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. STOP BEHAVING LIKE SPOILT KIDS AND PUT MR. PRESIDENT'S PIX IN THAT YOUR SAD LOOKING OFFICES FOR ALL WE CARE. IF I WERE YOU MY DEAR PDP, I WOULD EVEN USE HIS ENCHANTING PIX AS THE PARTY'S DISPLAY PIX TO FORM FAKE SOLIDARITY SO THAT HE WILL SHOW MERCY WHEN THE WAHALA OF CORRUPTION LANDS IN OUR COURTYARD.
Sincerely yours.

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In accord with the vision of PDP ruling the country for 60 years. But alas, 'the year of jubilee' was Changed.

kai! See as people buy land. Well, all i need is good governance

who cares? hang or no hang his still d president. PDP ndi Asai

The king of the North has no place in our offices at all.

Good. What is good for the goose is also good for the gander. Abi no be so? My people, una good morning

hmmm

Awon oni yeye oshi

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.

Baboons democratic Pigs

I wonder who cares about what these _idiots and their hopeless party do this days!

See bitterness

The immature dolts don't want a smiling reminder of their failures on March 28th.

As far as their nonsense is restricted to their secretariat of failure, they can hang Anini's picture for all we care.

These guys will never go past the stage of denial till 2019.

They seriously still can't believe power has changed hands.

They just don't want to be reminded of their loss!

Talk about patriotism!
If this is any true I now seriously doubt the foundational integrity of PDP and Nigeria in general.
Well I guess it isn't too bad though. They are a political party. I wonder if you would find the portrait of Obama at the Republican Party Headquarters. Just saying.

No need, just hang his picture on your mind.

Like we care!
Iranu abasha!

Like Patience Jonathan.... Jonathan still be president....





Na so craze dey start!

humm

DrWise:
The king of the North has no place in our offices at all.

Lol
All hail the KING OF NIGERIA from the North who has conquered the clueless and heartless King from the South who now lie waste in the desolate places of Otuoke. The king of Nigeria from the North has a special spot in the History of time whether you put him in your sad looking offices or not.

Only his shadow sends shockwaves down your corrupt and silly spines talkless of his photograph.

The cold, drilling stare that baba gives Na DIE

ha-ha ha-ha pained ass and asses. since nothing to criticize again war on propaganda is gradually being lost na ds one be next.... put jona own dia till 2058... u not ruling us again period!

shallow minded party! shame on metuh. shame on PDP,.good thing they were booted out of power. mtcheew

who cares? bunch of bitter clowns