Why PDP Lost Presidential Election, By Bishop Hassan Kukah

THE Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah yesterday said that the People Democratic Party (PDP) lost the presidential election to the opposition All Progressives Congress because the ruling PDP became and association of takers and buccaneers.

The Catholic Bishop added that APC does not have a track record because it is a conglomerate of factions and fractions of disparate groups which were welded together by a common belief that things must change. He said the President- elect, Gen Muhammad Buhari should restore public confidence in government.

Bishop Kukah spoke while delivering his convocation lecture at Ebonyi State University at the College of Agricultural Science campus of the institution in Abakaliki.

He noted that Jonathan and his PDP would have won the elections had they not succumbed to the hubris that had become the hallmark of the PDP.

He argued that the PDP could not deal quickly with the issues of greed and arrogance of some of its men and women in power.

The Bishop also added that the party could not control the excesses of some of its Ministers and henchmen/ women, as it simply saw itself as presiding over a distribution agency.

According to him, many would argue that it became insensitive to the needs of its supporters and the party had no mechanism for internal cohesion and simply believed that it was the elephant that could never be slain.

“The President has to move the state away from the stranglehold of all religions so as to free both religion and the state to fulfill their roles in the attainment of social welfare and injustice,” he said.