Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for collaboration of other political parties in the country to “rescue Nigeria from the alleged misrule of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)”.
The party deputy national publicity secretary, Prince Diran Odeyemi, in a statement Tuesday, explained that three incidents that happened recently had shown that the APC would never change its style of governance, which he claimed had brought Nigeria to her knees.
Odeyemi said the 10-day trip undertaken by President Mohammadu Buhari, without formally informing the National Assembly goes beyond disregard for the legislative arm of government but remains gross violation of the constitution.
Further, the PDP alleged that the APC and President Buhari have resolved to foist a leadership on the National Assembly with the sole aim of producing a docile leadership on the NASS that would facilitates a sustained illegality that has been hallmark of the present administration since it came on board.
Odeyemi wondered why the APC would be talking about 2023 presidency when it was yet to justify its present mandate and therefore insisted that other political parties and Nigerians across board must join hands with it to rescue the country from APC’s vicious grip and redirect the ship of the country to a safe harbour.
“Is it not sad that a party that stole mandate many Nigerians freely gave to the PDP, using all illegal means to perpetrate itself in office, even with its baggage of woes, misdeeds, missteps, jaundiced policies and wanton plundering of the nation’s treasury, would be talking about 2023 presidency in 2019?
“Has the party justified the temporary stay it is currently occupying let alone seeking another term in far away 2023? APC must have concluded that Nigerians are gullible”.
“Only a president that has no regard for the governed would disregard for the law of the land and travel out of the country “on a private visit” without delegating governance to the Vice President as stipulated in the constitution.
“We in PDP have demonstrated over and over again our readiness to lead the rescue mission that would safe Nigeria from her tormentors and safe once blossoming country made ‘poverty headquarters’ by APC. We are only calling on other parties to join hands with us to defeat our common enemies”, he added.
