PDP UPDATE: Tambuwal and El-Rufai are expired politicians

The Peoples Democratic Party has described the All Progressives Congress as a “waste basket” that is all out to receive waste products from the ruling party.

Reacting to the recently held APC primaries ahead of the 2015 general elections, the PDP stated that most of the candidates who have emerged on the platform of the APC were “expired substances.”

Writing on its Facebook page, PDP particularly took on the embattled Speaker of the House of Reps, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, and a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai.

The party described Tambuwal and El-Rufai, who defected from the PDP to the APC and recently won the leading opposition party’s tickets for the governorship elections in Sokoto and Kaduna States, as a bunch of politicians who re-emerged from the PDP's “dump site.”

It also named Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara, a former Speaker of the House of Reps and Katsina State APC guber candidate, Aminu Bello-Masari, as those emanating from PDP “waste basket.”

“The All Progressives Congress is PDP’s waste basket. Many candidates who so far emerged from their (APC) primaries are either expired substances or spent quantity dumped by our great party.

“Besides, three out of the four APC presidential candidates were PDP members while over one third of the APC candidates for the National and State Assembly emerged from PDP dump site,” the PDP stated.

But Tambuwal has said that he would not join issues with the PDP or key presidential aides, no matter the level of provocation.

Speaking through his Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Imam Imam, Speaker Tambuwal stated on Twitter that only individuals who lack basic home training and manners would engage in heated exchange of “insults” in the public domain.

“The training we got at home won’t allow us to insult others,” he stated.

The Speaker, however, advised the PDP to learn some lessons from the way the APC nationwide had so far conducted themselves during the party’s primaries.

Noting that the difference between APC and PDP is clear, Speaker Tambuwal was clearly confident that he would win the governorship election.

“It will give our democracy a huge boost if other parties conduct their primaries in largely the same orderly manner as the APC did its own. This mandate given to me now will be held in trust. We will march to the elections in confidence. I assure our leaders that I won’t fail,” Tambuwal added.