By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor
LAGOS — The Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, yesterday claimed to have uncovered what it claimed to be a devious plot by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to further distabilise the party.

Speaking through its National Publicity Secretary, Engr. Rotimi Fashikin, the CPC said the PDP had arranged a meeting of CPC dissidents where a vote of no confidence would be passed on the leadership of the party.

The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, in a sharp rebuttal described the CPC as an inconsequential body ignorant of the sources of its repeated failure to win election. He charged the CPC to search among its prospective alliance partners in the opposition for the source of its problem.

“The PDP plans to use the renegade group led by Senator Rufa’I Hanga to goad unsuspecting party men into a meeting on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 where a noxious vote-of-no-confidence decision shall be passed on the substantive National Executive Committee (NEC) of the CPC,” the CPC claimed, yesterday.

“Having failed to cater for the security and welfare of Nigerians, being the basic constitutional requirements for responsible governance, the PDP seeks to languidly lay hold of straw of hope by deliberately sponsoring confusion within the polity.”

Reacting, Metuh said: “It is too irrelevant and too consequential for the PDP to disturb itself, it is a one man party.  They don’t know where their problems are and that is why they keep losing elections. They should look at their alliance partners who want to have an upper hand in their alliance arrangement and so they should leave the PDP alone.”