Abuja — Action Congress(AC) has described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primaries election as a bad omen for Nigeria as far as 2011 general election is concerned.

The party described the kidnap of father of the PDP governorship candidate, Chief Simon Soludo, as a fallout of the selection of Prof. Chukwuma Soludo as PDP flag bearer in the next year's governorship election in the state.

In a statement issued in London yesterday, by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, AC noted that "our fear is that if a party's primaries in only one state can generate the kind of crisis that we have seen in Anambra, what will happen when this same party organises its primaries in the 36 states of the federation?" The party expressed worry that the foul air wafting out of the PDP's primaries in Anambra could pollute the atmosphere when the other parties hold their primaries across the country,.

It added that the only reason that picking the PDP's ticket has become a do-or-die affair is the general perception among desperate PDP candidates that the ticket guarantees an automatic 'victory' over other parties' candidates."The PDP has become used to 'winning' at all costs, employing election rigging and massive violence with impunity, no thanks to the supporting cast of INEC and the police.

"This win-at-all-cost attitude has stifled transparency and internal democracy within the party, with grave consequences for it and the nation.

"That is why we have been calling for electoral reforms, because the moment votes begin to count and rigging is made to have grave consequences for the rigger, the PDP will find it more difficult to steal peoples votes, and its members will stop engaging in do or die politics," AC said.It wondered whether anyone will be safe from the rampaging political kidnappers when the PDP begins its primaries for the 2011 elections in other 35 states.

"We, therefore, call on the PDP, the largest party of do-or-die politicians in Africa, to put its desperate members on a leash and save our country from an unnecessary conflagration now and in the run-up to the 2011 elections," the party said.