The Labour Party and Progressive Peoples Alliance, have joined the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, in refusing to hang the portrait of President Muhammadu Buhari in their secretariats.
The parties said, the ruling All Progressives Congress, before it came to power, allegedly refused to hang the portrait of former President Goodluck Jonathan in its national secretariat, and that this is payback time for the APC.
The PDP expressed divergent views on their party’s action, which was announced by its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, on Tuesday.
“We will never hang his (Buhari) portrait in this office, because President Buhari is not known to our party. He is not a leader of our party and, therefore, we will never put his portrait here. We are a political party, very partisan and therefore, we are not going to hide that,” Metuh.
Although it is not constitutionally stated that the portrait of the president must be hung, it has become a global culture for the picture of the president to he hung in offices as a sign of respect.
The National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Lai Mohammed, has dismissed the controversy, saying it is “a non-issue.”
