A former spokesman to ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Segun Sowunmi, has once again stated that he remains a bona fide member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Sowunmi made the clarification on Monday during an appearance on Channels Television.
He stated that if he were interested in decamping to the All Progressives Congress (APC), he would have done that already.
According to him, “If I wanted to decamp to the APC, I would have done that, but not at this time. I’m still a member of the PDP.
“Nigerians are very funny people. I have been standing with this party since 1998. I had one handshake with the president, whom I have known since 1994, and you think I would leave my party for that? It doesn’t work that way.
“You must understand that after about 26 years in democracy, it gets to a point where you will start asking questions: is this democracy really working? Why are the people unhappy? Can we begin to build consensus around development? Otherwise, nations are leaving us behind.”
Meanwhile, Sowunmi has claimed that he advised erstwhile presidential candidate Peter Obi to return to the party, but he refused to listen
In an interview on Nigeria Info FM 99.3, he stated that he urged Obi to return to the PDP due to the debt the party owes the South-East.
Sowunmi stated this after the PDP zoned its presidential ticket to the South during its National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in Abuja.
Sowunmi alleged that Obi wants the party’s presidential ticket without participating in a primary election.
Sowunmi said, “Peter is someone who doesn’t listen, I told him more than three, four months ago that Peter the time now is to return because the PDP owes the South-East a debt.
“The PDP owes the South-East a debt based on the fact that they have given every other tribe the ticket except the Igbos and you have demonstrated capacity.
“The only thing there is that Peter thinks he’s too clever, he never wants to do primaries. Anybody that doesn’t want to do primaries is looking for somebody to cheat on his behalf.
“Primaries is the internal democracy of parties, it’s only when you cross the hurdles of primaries that you can now be looking at the general election.
“But unfortunately, when they gave him a platform to manage like Labour, he could not manage it. Nigeria cannot be waiting for Peter, if Peter can’t be President as an Igbo person, one day we will find an Igbo person.”