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The All Progressives Congress has strongly condemned theendorsement of President Goodluck Jonathan as the sole candidate ofthe PDP for next years presidential election, to the exclusion of allother candidates, calling the endorsement nothing but a mockery ofdemocracy.

In a statement issued in Lagos on Wednesday by its National PublicitySecretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party also said the endorsementhas come at a great price to Nigerians, considering the obvious dealsthat were struck to make President Jonathan the sole PDP candidate.

It said the parody of democracy that the endorsement represents hasexposed the shameless hypocrisy of the PDP, which is ever so eager toaccuse other parties of lacking in internal democracy.

It said, Obviously, those fellows in the PDP have never heard of the sayingthat those who must come to equity must come with clean hands. PDP,where is your own internal democracy now that you have turned yourparty into a fiefdom controlled by one and only one person only?

While endorsements are part and parcel of democracy, they are neverdone to the exclusion of other candidates. This is simply notdemocratic. When then candidate Barrack Obama was endorsed by hispartys bigwigs to contest the US Presidency, the party never excludedHillary Clinton from its primaries. Thats how it is done.

The party said the price being paid for Jonathans endorsement byNigeria is simply too heavy, considering that the PDP Governors whospearheaded the endorsement have now secured perpetual immunity fromprosecution by anti-graft bodies, including the EFCC and the ICPC; theautomatic tickets for all first-term PDP Governors, whether or not they have performed, the automatic tickets for all PDP Governorsrunning for the Senate, as well as the free ride back to the UpperChamber for Senate President David Mark.

It is now an Open Sesame for the PDP Governors, who have no pryinganti-corruption agencies watching over their shoulders. They can nowsimply see the commonwealth as an extension of their deep pockets. Theendorsement is also a vote of approval for the proceeds of corruptionthat have been powering the noisy and outrageous Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria, it said.

APC accused President Jonathan of desecrating the countrys democracybecause of his desperation for re-election, adding: It is a cruelirony that a man who has benefited, more than anyone else, from thisdemocracy has been the one who has been doing everything possible toundermine it.

The party said President Jonathan has also abandoned domestic issueswhile seeking international relevance, in a clear negation of theaphorism that charity begins at home.

This President has basically abandoned governance. Unprecedentedcorruption is mounting, insecurity stalks the land and Nigerians gropein darkness as power generation has plummeted. This President has yetto tell Nigerians the full involvement of his government in the 9.3million dollars that was illegally ferried to South Africa on aprivate jet. This President has yet to tell Nigerians why he hascontinued to hobnob with an alleged sponsor of Boko Haram, who is supposed to be under a probe by his Administration. Yet, he is eagerto attend meetings with serious-minded leaders who have done well fortheir own people.

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