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From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja
Former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh, has said democracy in the country cannot thrive without a viable opposition.
Metuh, who stated this, yesterday, on the sidelines of a thanksgiving service at the Guiding Light Assembly, Abuja to commemorate his 60th anniversary, said he does not believe in a one party state.
The former opposition spokesman stated that despite the challenges in the polity, including the excesses and impunity at the various levels of government, the country has done well in the 26 years of the current democratic dispensation.
“I don’t believe in one party system. There should not be one party. No democracy can work without vibrant opposition. We need vibrant opposition. We need people to express their views,” he stated.
He announced that he was back to active politics and gave hints that he was heading to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He noted that the PDP abandoned him during his travails.
“My trial was one of the worst things that happened to me, that the day I was convicted I celebrated. There has also been good times and God has brought good people close to me. People that have shown me love and care.
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“All my life I gave it to PDP. (Raji) Fashola was my classmate in law school, he would call me to come and take land in Ikoyi, Lagos and I will say how can I take land from APC, I was very dedicated to the PDP.
“When we lost election and the president now wanted APC to have the Senate president and speaker, he called several times. He kept on saying he wanted to work with me and I refused.
“When I had problems I did not see my party. I did not see the people I suffered for. I did not see my party in the court with my family. But in the midst of that, somebody who I criticised so much, President Tinubu was the head of the opposition then, every week we must find something to criticise him with.
“In the middle of my problem, he sent (then) speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, to come and see me.
He reached out to me, he comforted me and he did a lot of things for me then and this was someone who was my political enemy.
“So, I say today, that it is really not were you sow that you will reap, it is where God said you will reap that you will reap.
Politically, I am now active and anywhere the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma goes, there I shall go too.”
