A member of the National Assembly, Oladipupo Adebutu, has said that the Peoples Democratic Party would emerge stronger from the current perennial crisis.
Adebutu, representing Ikene/Sagamu/Remo North Federal Constituency of Ogun State in the House of Representatives, said that the PDP would survive its present crisis and emerge a vibrant opposition that would save Nigerians from its present predicament.
The lawmaker, who spoke with journalists on the sideline of the PDP National Convention in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State noted that, having been in power for 16 years, the party was just learning the ropes in playing the role of an opposition party.
He decried the actions of law enforcement agencies, who prevented members of the PDP from conducting their Convention at the Sharks Stadium, Port-Harcourt, the original venue for the exercise before they moved it to the State party Secretariat on Aba road, Port-Harcourt.
According to him, “The political party, no doubt, is going through a turbulent time. However, PDP’s experience, over the years, stand it out as the party that can deliver dividends of Democracy to Nigerians”.
While condemning the alleged physical attack on him by a senator from Ogun State (names withheld) at the car park of the Presidential Hotel in Port Harcourt, Adebutu expressed shock at the debased level into which politics had degenerate in the country.
“It took the intervention of some other party members present, mostly supporters of the Party’s Caretaker committee Chairman, Sen. Ahmed Markafi, who came to the scene and prevented what could have been a mayhem.
The two politicians have been locked in fierce battle over the control of the structure of the PDP in Ogun State.
