…Assure Nigerians of better governance
BY ADEYEMI AKANJI, ABUJA – Governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have declared that they do not agree and believe in intimidation thus, would not succumb to intimidation but determined to remain in the party to recapture power in 2023, change and improve Nigeria.
The governors also said that the PDP remains committed to granting Nigerians a better future from 2023 when it regains power at the federal level from the All Progressives Congress (APC) that has made life unbearable for the people.
The PDP Governors’ Forum expressed the hope that Nigerians having experienced bad governance under the present ruling APC, they would work with it to vote out the party in government.
This is as the governors assured Nigerians that the PDP is the party that will salvage the nation from all of its challenges, saying that Nigeria has no hope except in the PDP.
Speaking at a grand reception held on Sunday night at the Government House, Bauchi in honour of the 13 PDP Governors that converged in Bauchi state for their meeting, the Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum and Governor of Sokoto state, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal said that the party has the solution to the predicaments facing the country, pointing that the party will bounce back in 2023.
It was gathered the PDP Governors meeting in Bauchi would deliberate on the ongoing constitution amendment before the National Assembly, the state of democracy in the country, the recently passed Electoral Act Amendment, the level of unemployment and the state of the economy among other issues.
Represented by the Governor of Taraba state, Darius Dickson Ishaku, Tambuwal said that the country is in a very sorry state and plagued with challenges ranging from insecurity, banditry, kidnapping, unemployment, poverty amongst other social vices, saying that the PDP has what it takes to deliver Nigeria from its problems.
He further said; “We have no hope except in PDP, we will live in the PDP and salvage whatever the country is left off when we regain power in 2023. If you look around, all the PDP states are where there is work ongoing and I am sure, I am speaking the fact and minds of many Nigerians.
“Those who are running and leaving PDP to where their sins are forgiven, know why they are running. If you are a bad and corrupt man, go over to APC where your sins are forgiven.
“Those who said that they were going to conquer and remove Boko Haram in 6 months, it is now 6 years and they are still there, they cannot do it. It is getting worse, it is now several Bokos, not one Boko Haram. It is now Herdsmen Boko Haram, herdsmen Haram.
“I assure that we will do it again, give us the mandate, we are all coming back in 2023. We assure you that this time for real, that in six months, we will change the terrain, we will change the narratives, we will make Nigerians happy again,” he said
Earlier, Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, said that the PDP is the only party that is united and has the experience to take Nigeria out of the blues, adding the party is getting a lot of support from colleagues in other parts of the country.
Mohammed said; “PDP has done it before, we have all the structure that is required and we have the experience from 1999 till date and that is why I must thank our leaders, the governors for bringing this initiative, where we are going from state to state, zone to zone to discuss our problems and challenges and the problem of governance.
“I know there have been a prevalence of defection that is worrying so many people, those that must go must go. They are either pursuing something or something is pursuing them. So, if they go, it may be better off for us. For some of us that you see here, there is nowhere to go, PDP is the only answer for Nigeria,” he said.
