A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Segun Sowunmi, said the opposition party is far more mature in handling governance issues than the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
Sowunmi, who stated this on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday, said PDP was not doing so badly in playing its role as an opposition party.
He faulted the ruling party’s style of opposition before ascending to power, stressing that people cannot expect PDP to play opposition in the way that will be demarketing Nigeria
“Do you think that nonsense they (APC) were doing—calling people into the streets every day, shaming the country, running up and down the place, demarketing the country, refusing Jonathan to buy arms to fight insecurity—is how to run a country?
“We (PDP) are far more mature than them because we understand what it means to protect the territorial integrity and the brand equity of Nigeria, that is why we don’t go out of the way to go and demarket the country like they were doing,” Sowunmi said.
According to him, what constitutes playing opposition is having an alternative viewpoint to the policies of the ruling party, which PDP does, insisting that playing opposition should not involve telling lies about the country and making it ungovernable.