New PDP Leadership Planning to Return Nigeria to Looting Era – APC
By Kabir Akintayo
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the newly-inaugurated leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of planning to return the country to the looting era.
The ruling party said PDP is yet to change from the practice of its previous 16 years of misrule which led the country into insecurity and mismanagement of public funds.
This was contained in a statement signed by the Secretary of the APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) Sen. John James Akpanudoedehe in Abuja.
The PDP during the inauguration of its National Working Committee (NWC) on Friday in Abuja had requested the President Muhammadu Buhari to start preparing his handover notes to the opposition party.
While reacting to the statement above, APC called PDP a failed opposition party whose interest is to grab power by any means, leaving behind a truly democratic governance.
The statement reads in part:
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“Going by the utterances and direction of the new PDP leadership, any hope of a refocused opposition party expected to atone for misdeeds on the country when it was in government for 16 years and as a failed opposition party following PDP’s sack in 2015 have now been quickly dashed.
“Clearly, the PDP’s sole intent is power grabbing by any means, ignoring the need for genuine restitution, return of stolen public funds and assets still in possession of politically exposed persons during its 16-year administration and ultimately providing a truly viable and credible opposition our democracy needs to thrive.
“The PDP’s new leadership must prove to Nigerians that it is willing and ready to discard its penchant for impunity by submitting to the new democratic environment entrenched by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC government where votes count and the will of the people prevails in all electoral contests.
“This is the task before the new Senator Iyorchia Ayu-led PDP. Not empty and tired rhetorics of 2023 handover notes.
“The sit-tight syndrome headlined by the PDP’s ill-fated third-term agenda has been discarded as an undemocratic template. President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians and the international community of free and fair elections in 2023, even as he pledged peaceful transfer of power. That is the stuff of true progressives and statesmanship.”
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