Peoples Democratic Party on Monday said President Goodluck Jonathan would not resign from office because of the prevailing insecurity problems in the country.
The party said those making the calls were doing so out of ignorance.
National Chairman of the party, Dr. Bamanga Tukur, stated this while speaking with journalists in Abuja.
He asked those making the call to realise that the United States President Barak Obama did not resign following the recent bombing in Boston.
Tukur, who just returned from Canada, said such resignation calls could only come from the opposition, saying the majority of them were not exposed.
Tukur said, “It is just ignorance. If something happens, is it the president, who went and killed police officers in Nasarawa State? He is not.
“You see, if there is any security threat, the security people will take care of it. You cannot link it to the president.
“Recently, there were people killed in Boston marathon by bombs, would you ask Obama to resign because of that? There were massacre of school children. Would you say Obama should resign?
“So, this is out of lack of exposure or out of ignorance that people say things. Opposition can say anything they like. So, I do not think we can bother ourselves about this.”
On the comment by the leader of the Niger Delta Volunteer Force, Mr. Mujaheed Dokubo-Asari that there would be crisis if Jonathan loses in the 2015 presidential election, Tukur said there was no need for such a statement.
Tukur said, “It is a wrong thing even to talk about war in election. Election should be free. People elect whom they want. So, election is free. Election should not be something you say something will happen if someone loses.
“Election means, you offer yourself and they take you or they take another one. That is what election means.
“We are in a democratic country. So, do not fight. When time comes for elections, people are expected to vote according to their consciences.”
The PDP chief said the planned merger of opposition parties would enhance healthier political competition in the polity.
He, however, urged the promoters of the initiative to work in consonance with the electorate, saying if they refuse, they would face rejection at the polls.
He added, “It is a combination of all what they (the people) want you put in your manifesto. If you want to have a party, you should go to the people.
“First of all, to understand what they want. This is how you base your manifesto. The manifesto is on the wishes, fears and expectations of the generality of the people.
“If you put it like that and you reflect it in your manifesto, usually, they will come to you because you are making a promise to them.
“But if you do not allow them, or the majority of them to really know, after coming to you, to find a free and fair access of expressing these wishes, then you will start getting problems.”
Tukur, a former old Gongola State governor, explained that the people-oriented nature of the PDP was the reason it “has large followership”.
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