Buhari will be the last APC president – Imo APC
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to face its self-inflicted woes instead of seeking a face-saving measure by dragging the name of the PDP into its internal crisis.
The party was reacting to a statement by the spokesman for the APC, Mr. Lanre Issa-Onilu that the PDP was “practically dead” following its defeat at the 2015 elections and that the party bounced back not because the “party has changed its insidious way or did anything different, but because APC did not live up to expectations.”
Onilu, who was reacting to the allegation of incompetence leveled by the erstwhile chairman of the APC, Mr. John Odigie-Oyegun against his successor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, also told its “members who have different agenda to join their kind in PDP.”
Responding, the PDP, in a statement by its spokesman, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, said the APC, by bringing out its dirty linen to the market place at this time, had again demonstrated its insensitivity and contempt for the feelings of Nigerians.
It said that it was most reprehensible that after pushing Nigerians into anguish and economic misery, the APC will not allow the people to celebrate the end of Ramadan in peace.
“It is imperative to state that the PDP, as a responsible party, will not join the APC in its shameless dance, yet, the APC must know that it must answer for its failures, depravities and unrestrained looting of our national treasury in the last four years.
“This is the same APC, whose national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, confirmed as a sanctuary of looters and unpatriotic people, when he declared that, “once you join the APC, your sins are forgiven,” said the PDP.
The party further said it had also become clear to Nigerians that the APC was fixated on the PDP and had become feverish by the reinvention of the PDP to serve the interest of the people.
This, it said, is in addition to the fact that majority of Nigerians now believe more in PDP after seeing through the lies, deceit and failures of the APC and its government.
“The APC must face the truism that having divided our people, wrecked our once robust economy, returned our nation to a debtor status and brought so much misery to the extent that our compatriots now resort to suicide and slavery mission abroad as options, Nigerians cannot continue to lend it any support.
“The determined optimism expressed by majority of Nigerians for the retrieval of our stolen Presidential mandate at the tribunal as well as the spontaneous jubilation across the country over the victory of the PDP in state governorship elections shows that the people are eager to have the PDP back at the saddle of governance.
“This is because, while in office, the PDP, as a people-oriented party, remained dedicated to the wellbeing of the people.
“The PDP administration salvaged our nation from a pariah status, paid off our foreign debts, grew the economy to become one of the fastest growing economies on the world map, revolutionized our aviation, telecommunication, automobile, education, agriculture, sports, entertainment, health, housing, railway, power and other critical sectors of our economy for the good of the people” it added.
The PDP recalled that while it was in power, it strengthened democratic institutions, created anti-graft agencies, equipped security agencies, engendered equity and social justice, while it maintained a strict adherence to rule of law, respect for the rights of citizens and provided electoral reforms that guaranteed credible elections in our country.
The party expressed sadness that the incompetent, divisive, vindictive and deceitful APC had reversed all the gains achieved by the PDP in a space of four years.
“If anything, the APC has only succeeded in bringing economic misery, escalated insecurity, piling foreign debts, dilapidated infrastructure and despondency in our country,” said the PDP.
The PDP therefore counselled the APC to seek restitution for the misery it had caused the nation instead of always looking for scapegoats where none exists.
Meanwhile, the Imo State chairman of the APC, Mr. Dan Nwafor, has predicted that President Muhammadu Buhari might be the last president the party would produce if should Oshiomhole remain as the chairman.
He attributed the lingering crisis in his state as well as others to the selfish and dictatorial ways the party’s chairman allegedly conducted the party prior to the general elections.
Commenting on the recent Supreme Court verdict which voided victory of the APC in the governorship and legislative elections in Zamfara State and awarded victory to the first runner-up in the exercise, Nwafor said the party will continue to languish in the pool of crisis in as much as Oshiomhole continues to rule the party with iron fist.
Nwafor also maintained that the crisis and shocking defeat encountered in the last elections could have been averted had Oshiomhole hearkened to the suggestions of the other party members.
With ThisDay/The Sun reports
