Former Director General of Voice of Nigeria, VON, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, has urged PDP leaders to consider themselves fortunate not to have been investigated by consecutive All Progressives Congress, APC administrations.
Okechukwu, an APC chieftain, was reacting to the PDP’s resignation from the party following the opposition party’s victory in Ghana’s presidential election.
Debo Ologunagba, a spokesman for “The verdict of the people of Ghana in this presidential election is a signal to the APC that its days are numbered, as the power of the people in Nigeria just like in Ghana, will surely prevail, end the 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.”
Responding in a statement released on Tuesday, Okechukwu stated that after reading the above statement by the PDP’s spokesman, his only submission is that “the PDP clan should thank Almighty God that Buhari and Tinubu out of sheer statesmanship refused to probe the planlessness and squandermania of sixteen locust years of PDP.”
According to him, the country has yet to recover “from the humongous culture of impunity and trust deficit that the PDP planted in our soil, to name a few.”
He stated, “Corruption governed the privatization of our power value chain, a cornerstone to industrialization.
“Blatant rigging of the 2007 general elections, with the primary beneficiary, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, publicly admitting the wrongdoing that defined his triumph.
“Conscienceless selling of parliamentary and ministerial quarters, resulting in an annual loss to our treasury.
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“The neglect of $23 billion Greenfield Refinery, which could have saved over $70 billion expended on importation of refined petroleum products and which simulated the economic hardship of today.”
On why the APC administration could not fix them for nine years, Okechukwu recalled “efforts made by the Buhari’s administration to reopen talks on the Greenfield Refinery, which the Chinese regrettably rebuffed.”
He stated that “we cannot in a hurry forget the deliberate violation of the president’s rotation convention from north to south, as well as the complete disregard of Section 7 of the PDP’s constitution, which expressly mandates zoning.”
“The PDP should not offend Nigerians’ sensibilities by presuming that we are idiots who will quickly forget how they put us in danger.
“Rather they should thank Almighty God that Buhari and Tinubu did not want to probe them and that’s why Nigerians cannot decipher the difference between the two political parties.”
