The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has slammed the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a party which thrives in foisting excruciating pain and hardship on Nigerians.
The PDP, in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, asserted that APC’s days as the ruling party in the country are numbered, declaring that the ruling party’s terminal date in power is February 2027 when it will be sacked by Nigerians.
The opposition party berated the APC for attacking Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde for over the Governor’s position on the ruling party and the 2027 polls.
Makinde, while speaking at the unveiling of the PDP South West Secretariat, in Ibadan, last weekend, had reportedly said that the APC has woefully failed the Nigerian people, adding that the 2027 polls would be between the ruling party and Nigerians.
However, the APC, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, berated the Oyo State Governor for his claims, saying Makinde cannot speak for Nigerians.
Said Ologunagba: “The attack on Governor Makinde also confirms that the APC is jittery that its days are numbered as Nigerians have seen through its lies, subterfuge, falsehood, suppressive policies and crass incompetence in governance.
“Governor Makinde remains a credible and effective leader with astonishing record of performance not only in prioritizing the needs of the people of Oyo State as evident in the numerous development projects in the State but also working with other governors elected on the platform of the PDP in the quest for development, sustenance of democracy and resistance to APC’s scheme to turn Nigeria into a One-Party State.
“It is indeed an assault on the sensibility of Nigerians that in the midst of worsening insecurity, biting economic hardship, widespread hunger and starvation, comatose infrastructure, crippled productive sector, weakened currency, closure of millions of businesses with over 36% unemployment rate, hopelessness and general despondency all occasioned by the irresponsible anti-people policies of the APC administration, the APC is living in alternate reality, arrogantly claiming that Nigeria is ‘on the cusp of prosperity”.
“Our Party finds it preposterous that the APC thinks that it can continue to hoodwink citizens with lies and harvest of false performance claims when it has failed on all fronts, reversed all the gains made in the 16 years of the PDP in governance and turned our once economically thriving nation into the poverty capital of the world, where over 100 million Nigerians are no longer able to afford their daily meals and other basic necessities of life,” PDP stressed.
“Today, under the APC voodoo economy, the Naira which exchanged for N168 to the Dollar under the PDP now exchanges for almost N2,000 per Dollar, petrol which sold for N87 per liter now sells for over N1,500 in various parts of the country; a bag of rice which sold for N8,000 now sells for over N100,000, a measure of beans which sold for N250 now sells for N3,800 while a measure of garri which sold for N100 now sells for N1,500.”
PDP alleged that while Nigerians are going through harrowing times, APC leaders are “busy looting the nation’s treasury to fund their luxury appetite and consumption.”
“It is, therefore, not surprising that as the day progresses toward 2027, the APC is resorting to manipulation of data, politicization of issues and personal attacks on outspoken Nigerians as being witnessed in its outburst against Governor Makinde,” the party surmised.
