BY SEGUN ADEBAYO, ABUJA – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described its apology to Nigerians as the pathway to national healing, renewal of hope and citizen’s re-mobilization to rescue the nation from All Progressives Congress (APC)’s painful misrule.
Consequently, the main opposition party is wooing Nigerians to trust the re-branded PDP as the only platform committed to ‘national agenda of peace, unity, justice and prosperous nation’.
It said as a responsible party that is committed to the overall good of Nigerians, the PDP more than ever ready to redeem the country and get it out of the current pathetic situation caused by the governing APC.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan in Abuja on Tuesday, the PDP expressed regrets that Nigerians “are suffering because the nation allowed the APC, a movement that has neither structure nor plan, to scheme itself into governance, devastate the country, wreck our once robust economy and plunge our citizens into a situation of hunger, starvation and daily bloodletting.”
According to the statement, the party “is not unmindful of the fact that lessons have been learnt and that Nigerians across board are now looking up to its repositioned and rebranded platform to pull the country from the brinks and return her to the path of true democracy, national cohesion and economic prosperity, which were the hallmarks of PDP’s 16 years.”
The Party admitted that obvious mistakes were made in its internal administration prior to the 2015 general election, but assured that the Prince Uche Secondus-led new leadership has already polished the rough edges to ensure strict adherence to internal democracy and good governance in all processes.
“It is imperative to further state that our apology has to do more with the fact that we made certain mistakes that allowed an anti-people movement to take over governance in our country.
“Our situation under the APC has become so pathetic that the world is now contemplating on how to help us. Under the APC misrule, the average life span of Nigerians has become abysmally low, purchasing power is eroded, the middle class has been wiped off, security is almost non-existent, all the economic gains of the PDP years have been destroyed, and our nation is now placed on auto-pilot”, the PDP spokesman said.
Ologbondiyan stated that “under the nightmarish rule of APC, Nigerians have become so frustrated that they now consider suicide mission and slavery as options.
“Therefore, our apology is to ask Nigerians, once again, to put their trust in the rebranded PDP, particularly, as our party is the only platform that is committed to the national agenda of peace, unity, justice and prosperous nation.”
