PDP has gone from grace to grass

Kano State Governor and All Progressives Congress presidential aspirant, Rabiu Kwankwaso, on Sunday said the emergence of President Goodluck Jonathan as the sole candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the 2015 presidential poll shows that the ruling party has gone from grace to grass.

Kwankwaso spoke to journalists in Enugu shortly after meeting with the party’s national delegates at the state party secretariat.

The presidential aspirant was responding to questions over the inability of the APC to present a consensus candidate for the presidential election.

He said there was nothing wrong with the APC having multiple presidential aspirants, and described the situation as a positive development.

Noting that some parties have no presidential candidate, Kwankwaso said, “A party like APC should have as many presidential aspirants as possible.

“PDP has gone from grace to grass now that they have only one candidate – that shows that PDP has gone down.”

Pointing out that the PDP had, over the years, always recorded several aspirants at its presidential primaries, the governor argued that the absence of any challenge to Jonathan’s candidacy means that times have changed for the party.

He went ahead to restate his earlier claim that it would be easy to defeat Jonathan.

“Jonathan has no capacity to rule the state – his government has failed, that is why there is a high level of insecurity and corruption.

“All these are as a result of poor leadership.

“People are looking for change,” he said, while explaining his reasons for believing that Jonathan would be easy to defeat.

“APC is moving from strength to strength and God willing, APC will defeat him (Jonathan) in 2015,” Kwankwaso added.