The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) declares that the All Progressives
Congress (APC), by its manifest retrogressive, violent and despotic
proclivities, has proven to be the clog in our collective quest for
national cohesion, happiness and economic prosperity as a people.
The APC has demonstrated that it was never a political party designed
for governance and development, but a contraption for oppression and
vendetta.
Already, there are plans by APC to extend the clampdown on opposition
leaders to regular citizens, who have seen through their lies and
deception and are in open agitation to vote them out in 2019.
We note that since the recent boast by President Muhammadu Buhari on his
abuse of rights as a military ruler, there has been an escalation of
clampdown on citizens, particularly, the opposition, in various parts of
our country.
It is also instructive to note that since it came to power by deceit and
propaganda in 2015, the APC has done nothing except actions and comments
that promote hatred, violence and daily bloodletting among Nigerians;
causing of disharmony among arms and tiers of government in addition to
undermining our democratic and security institutions.
It is also on record that the APC has not formulated any clear-cut
programme for good governance; it has never called its government to
order in their recklessness, particularly, on the documented abuse of
human rights and violation of our constitution and democratic order.
The APC has never intervened in the bloodletting in various parts of the
country, caused to fester by its incompetent and insensitive
administration; it has remained aloof, giving credence to allegations
that such disturbances serve its purpose of promoting confusion to
frustrate the conduct of a credible, free and fair general elections.
Despite attempts in blaming past administrations, it has since become
clear that the on-going barefaced looting of our national treasury,
particularly through the sleazy oil subsidy regime under President
Buhari’s supervision, coupled with government’s gross incompetence and
official highhandedness, are directly responsible for the economic
hardship and escalated violence in our nation today.
The harsh policies of the APC administration, which has scared away
investors and President Buhari’s unrelenting de-marketing of our nation
in the international arena, have led to the massive closure of
businesses, unprecedented loss of jobs, mass unemployment, dearth of
foreign investments and total stagnation of our economy.
Uptil now, the APC has not offered any explanation to the leaked memo
detailing the looting of N9 trillion at the NNPC, the budget padding in
ministries, departments and agencies, stealing of billions in the
National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and Internally Displaced Persons
(IDP) intervention funds.
We want the APC and its leaders to know that they are not bigger than
our nation. Nigerians have already reached a consensus against them and
no amount of harassment, arrests and trampling will cow the citizens in
their resolve to vote out APC in 2019.
