PDP APOLOGIZE TO NIGERIANS FOR ITS MISTAKES…As Party Sets Stage For The 2019 Electioneering Campaign
Mr. Uche Secondus, National
Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has apologized to Nigerians for
the “mistakes” the party made during its 16 years governing the country.
He tendered the
apology at an event in Abuja on Monday.
“We made mistakes. On behalf
of my colleagues and members of this party, I apologize to Nigerians. We have
learnt from our mistakes. It was all part of our evolution process. Without it,
there can be no maturity. I believe that PDP is more matured, to provide the
best for this country”, Secondus said.
Prominent leaders of the Party have also set stage for the 2019
electioneering campaign. PDP national chairman, Prince Uche Secondus; former vice presidents
Atiku Abubakar and Alhaji Namadi Sambo; former governor of Jigawa state, Sule
Lamido and former governor of Kaduna state, Senator Ahmed Makarfi.
It was gathered that others are former deputy Senate president, Ibrahim
Mantu; former governor of Niger state, Babangida Aliyu, ex-governor of Kaduna
state, Ramalan Yero; PDP ex-acting national chairman, Bello Haliru Mohammed;
BoT chairman, Senator Walid Jibrin; PDP ex-deputy national chairman, Chief Bode
George and many more.
The campaign stage was set at the Transcorp Hilton in Abuja, with the
theme: "Nation Building: Resetting the Agenda."
Secondus, who spoke on the campaign strategies of the PDP also knocked
the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for 'failing in critical sectors of
national life.'
"On security, Boko Haram has not only remained alive despite
several political claims of decimating it but is even now spreading under a new
name and nomenclature called herdsmen, that have been tormenting, maiming and
killing hundreds of Nigerian children, women and men across the country with
the government of the day offering feeble responses.
"Everyday our media is awash
with the staggering number of wanton killings raising questions about the value
of human life in Nigeria. It is an endless stream of bloodletting directly or
indirectly fueled by incompetent leadership.
"Only recently the federal government tried to arm twist state
governors to take from the common purse, the sum of $1billion dollars about
N365b for the tackling of Boko Haram they claimed they defeated two years ago.
"This government has through incoherent and inconsistent policies
and actions, dragged us into an unnecessary recession and it is patting itself
on the back for getting us out of where we ought not to have been in the first
place. The hardship currently faced by Nigerians is unprecedented.
"Our currency has been recklessly devalued from N199 in 2015 to
nearly N500 a dollar before it came down to about N365 only due to an increase
in oil prices and not any significant thing done by this government.
"Fuel prices rose from N97 to N145 yet the nation experiences
unabated scarcity with its attendant long queues and suffering by the Nigerian
citizens.
"From friends and members of
this government, we learnt that while in 16 years PDP government was able to
borrow N6trillion and had some projects commissioned for it, in just less than
three years, APC regime has borrowed N11trillion and has not commissioned a
single project," Secondus said.
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