Excited by the victory of the main opposition party in last weekend’s presidential election in Ghana, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has vowed to defeat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in
2027.
Presidential candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama, had defeated the candidate of the ruling
New Patriotic Party (NNP), Mahamudu Bawumia to emerge the winner.
Reacting to the development in Ghana, the PDP, in a statement on Monday by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, said the days of the APC in power are numbered.
According to PDP, “The victory of democracy on the platform of the opposition NDC is a clear demonstration of the triumph of the power of the people over misrule and oppressive policies of government as now being witnessed in Nigeria under the corrupt, rudderless and insensitive All Progressives Congress (APC).
“The verdict of the people of Ghana in this Presidential election is a signal to the APC that its days in office are numbered as the power of the people in Nigeria, just like in Ghana, will surely prevail, end APC’s oppressive rule and return Nigeria to the path of good governance, security, political stability and economic prosperity on the platform of the PDP in 2027.
It is intolerable that the APC has in the last nine and half years wrecked our collective patrimony, opened our country to terrorists resulting in the killing of over 65,000 Nigerians; destroyed the creative abilities of our youths; plunged our Naira from about N197 under the PDP to nearly N2,000 to the Dollar with over 34% inflation rate; crippled our productive sectors leading to over 40% unemployment rate; mortgaged the future of our country through reckless borrowing, foisted repressive policies including the rise in the cost of petrol from N97 per liter under the PDP to over N1,000 today and subjected Nigerians to misery where millions of families can no longer afford their daily meals and other basic necessities of life.
“Also unacceptable to Nigerians is that our once thriving nation, which ranked as preferred destination for international foreign investment capital and one of the world’s fastest growing economies under the PDP has been brought to its knees by the APC with decayed infrastructure, comatose economy, worsening insecurity and social uncertainties occasioned by ill-conceived and ill-implemented macro-economic policies.”
Lamenting further, the PDP said it’s more distressing that while Nigerians are subjected to harrowing hardship, APC leaders remain unconcerned and unaccountable.
The party said the APC its administration are imposing harsh taxes and recklessly looting the nation’s treasury to finance their luxury appetites and consumption while arrogantly treating Nigerians as though they are a conquered people.
“Major multinationals are now leaving our country in droves and life has become so unbearable that our citizens, particularly the youths are now resorting to suicide or slavery mission abroad as alternative because of the monumental misrule and insensitivity of the APC.
“Nigerians now recall with nostalgia and earnestly seek a return of the golden years of the PDP in government as their only hope for survival and triumph of their dreams, aspiration and collective Will as a people,” the party added.
The PDP called on all institutions of government, especially the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the security agencies to note the yearning of Nigerians and ensure that all processes are put in place to guarantee that the will of the people prevail in elections.
The party warned INEC to note that Nigerians are not ready to accept a repeat of the “massive manipulation and perversion of the electoral process” as witnessed in the 2019 and 2023 presidential elections.
The PDP charged Nigerians to remain firm and steadfast in their resolve to end what it described as the suppressive rule of the APC and re-establish good governance on the platform of the PDP come 2027.
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