The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress [APC] has lashed out at the South West PDP for its claim that the APC has reversed its legacies and accomplishments.
The party says that even as the horrors and after effects of its megalomania and corruption continues to afflict the country, the PDP continues to play the ostrich after looting a well-endowed and country bare in sixteen years on unmitigated plundering.
This is contained in a release in Lagos, signed by the Lagos State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Joe Igbokwe.
The party says that the PDP is still unrepentant of its callous misrule that wrecked the country as it lasted.
It says that Nigerians will surely teach the PDP an unforgettable lesson for its notorious role in the ruination of the country.
“We wonder what legacy a failed and corrupt party like PDP is talking about if not about the legacy of corruption, shameless looting, infrastructural wreckage, ineptitude, decay, disease, hunger and want even with providentially drawing from an oil boom that would have been gainfully employed to better the lots of Nigerians.
“One question Nigerians have been asking is if anything good can ever gone from a PDP that in sixteen whole years notoriously looted the country’s patrimony and left every sector of the Nigerian governance bare.
“If in sixteen years and with oil averaging over $100 per barrel, the PDP presided over the total ruination and bankruptcy of the country, we have no doubt that its legacies are only the negative fall outs of its corrupt acts which brought Nigeria to its knees as they lasted.
“When it talks of legacies and accomplishments, there is no doubt that the PDP wants to take Nigeria back to the sad years of free looting, stealing, overwhelming insecurity, total darkness, wrecked refineries, bad roads, industrial death, voracious unemployment, mass hunger and deprivation.
“We know that the legacy and accomplishment which PDP is celebrating so badly is that of stealing every resource available to the country but we want to let them know that never again will Nigeria revert to their rapacious tendencies which hobbled the country as they lasted.
“That the present APC government has totally —
– stopped official looting,
– set credible steps towards an immediate recovery of the country’s bankrupt infrastructures,
– tackle unemployment and other ills,
– decisively dealt with security challenges,
– brought Nigeria to the zenith of international politics, and,
– secured needed international credits and support to deal with the many problems the PDP created in sixteen whole years of misrule and bad governance,
— shows that we are gradually over the horror of PDP’s deliberate mismanagement while in power.
“We challenge the South West PDP to list out the PDP legacies and accomplishments if not horrendous cases of gargantuan looting and purloining of state resources to bring Nigeria on the brinks of economic collapse.
“We challenge the PDP to list its woeful legacies that led to its total rejection by Nigerians last year.
“We have no doubt that the PDP is suffering terribly from the aftershock of defeat and in its naivety, has refused to come clean with Nigerians and offer Nigerians a well-deserved apology for its misdeeds in power.
“The PDP still relishes on playing the ostrich with the damages it wrought in the country and Nigerians will only further the present critical state of the PDP which faces clear danger of extinction by its misconducts in power.
“We urge what remains of PDP in Nigeria to devote what remains of their time in serious soul searching and atone to Nigerians by the calamities it visited on Nigerians during its unfortunate years in power instead of playing the ostrich.
“Nigerians know where the rain started beating them.
“We will not mince words to tell the PDP that its salvation lies in stridently begging Nigerians for forgiveness and not in continued assault of the intelligence of Nigerians by its false posturing”
Joe Igbokwe
Publicity Secretary,
Lagos APC