LP, PPA Explains Why They Won’t Hang Buhari’s Portrait In Our Offices (Their Reason Will Surprise You)

Really? Does not hanging the presidents portrait change the fact he is still the president? So, two other political parties, the Labour Party and Progressive Peoples Alliance, have joined the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, in refusing to hang the portrait of President Muhammadu Buhari in their respective secretariats.

The two parties hinged their decision on the action of the ruling All Progressives Congress, which before it came to power, allegedly refused to hang the portrait of former President Goodluck Jonathan in its national secretariat. Both the LP and PPA stressed that their action was a payback for the APC.

The National Chairman of PPA, Mr. Peter Ameh, explained that the APC blazed the trail of “subtle civil disobedience” when it was in opposition. 

“Your storyline should be whether the APC had the photograph of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan. They did not. And that is the story; the APC did not have Jonathan’s portrait in the party’s national secretariat. 

Everything is about precedent. Throughout Jonathan’s tenure, the APC didn’t have his photograph; so, may be other political parties are also learning from the precedent set by the APC. They are following in the footsteps of the party during the last administration,” Ameh said,

A similar situation obtained at the national secretariat of the LP also situated in Garki.

“We don’t have the photograph of President Buhari in our secretariat because the APC never had the photograph of ex-President Jonathan in their offices. 

We are supposed to get it but we don’t. The fact of the matter is that the Federal Ministry of Information should have called us, not only political parties, to say that the President’s photograph is available at the Federal Ministry of Information and that all organizations should apply for it, ”

The National Chairman, LP, Abdulkadir Abdulsalam tells Punch.