The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described as wicked the plan by
governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
to sack schoolteachers and other workers after the 2019 general
election.
The PDP is horrified by the revelation by Kaduna State governor, Nasir
el-Rufai, on Thursday, that governors elected on the platform of APC,
particularly from the northern states, had been in a secret plot to sack
schoolteachers in their states after using them to win elections.
It is more disheartening to know from Governor el-Rufai, as widely
reported in the media, that President Muhammadu Buhari even supported
the implementation of this treacherous policy in his state, while at
the same time, parading himself before Nigerians as pro-people and
seeking to be re-elected.
The PDP rejects in its totality this plot by the APC governors to
victimize the schoolteachers or cause any worker at any level to suffer.
This atrocious scheme against our citizens has further portrayed the APC
and its leaders as explicitly wicked and anti-people group that have no
modicum of goodwill towards Nigerians, but delight in seeing Nigerians
suffer, as evinced in the Presidency’s refusal to address the
devastating nation-wide strike action by health workers.
This is a party whose incompetence and anti-people administration
plunged our country into extreme poverty and worst form of hunger and
starvation in the last three years, and now their governors are in a
wicked plot to sack innocent schoolteachers; the same Nigerians they
used to ascend to power in 2015.
This is a party and administration that have failed to fulfill the
littlest of their 2015 campaign promises, but has rather introduced
harsh economic policies that are directly responsible for the collapse
of the nation’s economy, dearth of foreign investments, closure of
businesses with over 25 million job losses and attendant pressure on
families and living standards.
It is thus totally inexcusable that instead of seeking ways to create
wealth and better the lives of Nigerians, as was the hallmark of the PDP
in our 16 years in office, the irredeemably wicked APC is rather
thinking of ways to further pauperize the people, while their officials
continue to fritter billions of naira through sleazes in the NNPC,
National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Presidential Initiatives for
the North East (PINE) and other government agencies.
We, therefore urge all Nigerians to rise and resist this murderous plot
by rallying on the platform of repositioned PDP to push out the APC in
2019 and return our nation to the path of wealth creation,
all-inclusiveness and economic empowerment, for which the PDP is known.
