Two other political parties, the Labour Party and Progressive Peoples Alliance, have joined the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, in refusing to hang the portrait of President Muhammadu Buhari in their respective secretariats.

The two parties hinged their decision on the action of the ruling All Progressives Congress, which before it came to power, allegedly refused to hang the portrait of former President Goodluck Jonathan in its national secretariat.

Both the LP and PPA stressed that their action was a payback for the APC.

This is as chieftains of the PDP expressed divergent views on their party’s action, which was announced by its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, on Tuesday.

“We will never hang his (Buhari) 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,” Metuh had told our correspondent on the telephone.

One of our correspondents, who visited the national secretariat of the PPA, situated along Emeka Anyaoku Street, Area 10, Garki Abuja, on Friday, observed that the President’s portrait was conspicuously missing.

The National Chairman of the party, Mr. Peter Ameh, explained that the APC blazed the trail of “subtle civil disobedience” when it was in opposition.

Ameh said, “Your storyline should be whether the APC had the photograph of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan. They did not. And that is the story; the APC did not have Jonathan’s portrait in the party’s national secretariat.

“Everything is about precedent. Throughout Jonathan’s tenure, the APC didn’t have his photograph; so, may be other political parties are also learning from the precedent set by the APC. They are following in the footsteps of the party during the last administration.”

A similar situation obtained at the national secretariat of the LP also situated in Garki.

The National Chairman, LP, Abdulkadir Abdulsalam, said the party did not have Buhari’s portrait, noting that apart from the fact that the APC never accorded Jonathan such respect, the new administration had failed to make the official portrait of Buhari available to it.

Abdulsalam said, “We don’t have the photograph of President Buhari in our secretariat because the APC never had the photograph of ex-President Jonathan in their offices.

“We are supposed to get it but we don’t. The fact of the matter is that the Federal Ministry of Information should have called us, not only political parties, to say that the President’s photograph is available at the Federal Ministry of Information and that all organisations should apply for it.”

Meanwhile, top chieftains of the PDP have expressed divergent views on the position espoused by Metuh.

A stalwart of the party in Oyo State, Senator Lekan Balogun, said hanging of the President’s portrait should not be an issue to Nigerians.

Although he questioned PDP’s position on it, Balogun, however, said that if the constitution did not back hanging of the President’s portraits in all places, discretion should be exercised in doing so.

He said, “If it has become acceptable by the years, it is left for anybody to hang it. It will sound partisan to the extreme. It is not a constitutional requirement, but the PDP should not be the party that will reject hanging the President’s portrait, bearing in mind that when Goodluck Jonathan of the party served as President, everybody put his portrait in their offices at the time.

“Unless you can prove that when Jonathan was ruling, the APC did not hang his portrait, it should not be an issue. It is the kind of thing Nigerians play on.”

A prominent member of the party from the state, Chief Richard Akinjide (SAN), refused to comment on the issue. He told our correspondent that if the PDP had taken a position on the issue, he would rather not comment on it.

The Chairman and the Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kwara State chapter, Iyiola Oyedepo and Rex Olawoye, however differed with Metuh.

In separate telephone interviews with one of our correspondents in Ilorin, they stated that Metuh’s position was wrong, adding that as the President of Nigeria, Buhari’s portrait should be everywhere and that he deserved to be respected.

However, the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Lai Mohammed, dismissed the controversy as “a non-issue.”

A constitutional lawyer, Fred Agbaje, who spoke with SUNDAY PUNCH in a telephone interview, described the practice of displaying presidents’ portraits as a civic responsibility embedded in the constitution.

According to him, though the constitution does not expressly provide that the President’s portrait be hung, failure to do so in public places amounts to reneging on a civic responsibility, which is a constitutional requirement.

He said, legally, by one of those old 1960 laws, which we inherited, we are supposed to do that (display presidents’ portraits). “Even if it is not part of our constitution, it is part of our civic duty under the constitution that all public places should display the portrait as a mark of respect for constituted authority.”

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Emeka Ngige, similarly told SUNDAY PUNCH that although the constitution did not explicitly provide that the President’s portrait must be hung, it had become a universally accepted convention as a sign of accordance of respect.

Source: http://www.punchng.com/news/like-pdp-we-wont-hang-buharis-portrait-lp-ppa/

This thread should be interesting..

Hahah. They want to get on the good side of PDP so they'll ultimately secure a merger. #JustMyOpinionThough

You must hang him ooo weda you like am or not....... He is the president and there is nothing you can phuckingly do to change that......



Permit me to say this is a jealous administration

Someone should pls asked the fucker poster above me whether na by force?


Buhari isn't the president of Nigeria, But of the Northern Nigeria

whether his portrait is hanged or not, it does not change the fact that buhari is still the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

They also made the office of the president a "seat of riddicle" by constantly attacking GEJ's person instead of his policies.
Now the person of Buhari has also been constantly shred to pieces by same precedent the APC set in their quest and appetite for political power.
One good turn........

Buhaari is nothing but an illiterate cattle rearing never-do-well samanja of a dumb soldier.

Quote me anywhere


Lalasticlala lets do justice to topic

Well they have a point, but I don't think that should be an issue after all it is not a most that every office must the president picture on their wall. I don't know why Nigeria like making issue out of nothing, I bet during the era of gej the apc will never put gej's pictures on Wall. Come to think of it, he they hated him that much from afar imagine them seeing his face every day

Payback @WWE

APC will go down in our history as the most demonic political party ever to bestrode the Nigerian political firmament. Congretion of known and aspiring LYING CRIMINALs. *spits on liar mohammeds demonic bald head*


Lalasticlala hurry quick quick pls

Who know them? How many of their member de house of rep/assembly... BUHARI OUR PRESIDENT

IBORI IS MENTOR.to the topicAPC did set several bad precedent when they wre in opposition.

See all this yeye party that couldn't even score up to uniben cut off mark during last election

mcteew

muhyeenisce:
Who know them? How many of their member de house of rep/assembly... BUHARI OUR PRESIDENT

Thats all your mustard seed brain can come up with? APC has brought in ant infested gay. Lets wait for more lizards.

benedictnsi:
You must hang him ooo weda you like am or not....... He is the president and there is nothing you can phuckingly do to change that......

Oya go and hang it for them lets see if you'd come back in tact

bigFOOTcaveMAN:

Thats all your mustard seed brain can come up with? APC has brought in ant infested gay. Lets wait for more lizards.

wetin u dey talk?

bigFOOTcaveMAN:

Oya go and hang it for them lets see if you'd come back in tact

If I hear say dem no go hang am....... Whether they like am or not Buhari is the president

Behold the parties that would eventually merge with PDP. Wonder what their new name would be? And oh! We don't give less than half a rat àss if you hang Buhari portrait or not. You can hang nudés of Kim Kardashian or Portrait of Tonto Dike böobs for all i care. It doesn't stop Buhari from being the president .

DickDastardly:
They also made the office of the president a "seat of riddicle" by constantly attacking GEJ's person instead of his policies.
Now the person of Buhari has also been constantly shred to pieces by same precedent the APC set in their quest and appetite for political power.
One good turn........

Buhaari is nothing but an illiterate cattle rearing never-do-well samanja of a dumb soldier.

Quote me anywhere

Kind of gangup, "do me, I do u, God nor dey vex" Apc started it all..

Two other political parties, the Labour Party and Progressive Peoples Alliance, have joined the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, in refusing to hang the portrait of President Muhammadu Buhari in their respective secretariats.

Imam Buhari's portrait belong in mosques not offices.

We don't care.

do this parties still exists ? they should just merge with PDP or STFU

Abeg that one no be issue, if una like make una hang una self. Onitsha main market no even know say one person no come market. Buhari potrait dey for 1001 ministries an offices. Wetin concern am with very few political party offices, make una no hang joo.

Please who are those making noise ?

Is it really necessary that you must hang the president's portrait in your office before he can perform? I believe strongly that as a political party with the people's opium, we should be able to teach the younger generation manners, respects for constituted authorities, value orientation, decorum and sportsmanship, but this has never be the case with the PDP and its extended strange bedfellows. What is the difference between PDP, LP and PPA? all are creation of the same group of people, didn't LP say there are adopting PDP's candidate during the last general election after collecting a paltry peanut from the PDP? PPA also betrayed their candidate in the same election, so what else do you expect?

It should not only stop at not hanging his portraits, these group of people should go ahead and do things contrary to Buhari's government dictates, then shall we know whether Buhari has the right to deal with them or not. Why should any one be basking in the euphoria of the past and not moving on with the tides of time? in my opinion, PDP lost the general election and the government seat basically because of three things, 1) they lost touch with the people 2) their greed and self centeredness and 3) their penchant for impunity. they never wanted Jonathan back, they sold him out even with the huge spending he incured,.

Until we accept defea and face reality, PDP your principal is denigrating by the day and you are still saying like PDP you can't hang his portrait, what an arrant rubbish, does it really make any difference to change Nigerians want whether you hang the portrait or not?

We Nigerian have seen the arrogance in your style and we know exactly the change we want and we have gotten the change, so if anybody is trying to attract cheap public attention, let that person go and hang himself in an electric pole in an open area with an insignia that he hung himself because he does not want to hang Buhair's portrait as a president or let him go and grab a life electric wire and electrocute himself for all we care.

All these rubbish is just a distraction and nothing more. I rest my case

Why much noise on this
Parties that can't boast of nuturing a single politician are making noise.

Too long article,can't read all but hang it or not,he remain the president until 2019...

In other news:
Today make it 19yrs since 2pac amaru shakur died.........R.I.P to the greatest rapper ever!.........the world miss u......../monzuur miss u

hang it or not he is our president and because you corrupt people know your days are numbered,your busy wailing. useless people