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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, on Sunday , in an interview with journalists, on the sidelines of a thanksgiving service, at the Glad Tidings Assembly, Abuja to commemorate his 60th anniversary, said he does not believe in a one party state.
However, the former opposition spokesman stated that he has moved on from the PDP, noting that the party abandoned him during his travails.
” I wish PDP well, I gave my life to PDP. Maybe PDP suffered from the fact that nobody owned it, it had no soul and that’s why we had such problems. Maybe that’s why they had the problems they had. But I have moved on, and I wish them well.
“I don’t believe in one party system. There should not be one party. No democracy can work without vibrant opposition.”
The Anambra born, while testifying during the Church service, announced that he was back to active politics and gave hints that he was heading towards the All Progressives Congress ( APC). According to him, he would go any direction the Imo State governor, Hope Uzodimma, who is a leader of the ruling party, goes politically.
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He said “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.
“All my life I gave it to PDP, 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, to take land from APC, I was very dedicated to the PDP. I cannot when I am 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 criticized so much and there is no week, because 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 the 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.”
