The Peoples democratic party (PDP) Has slammed the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Geroge Akume for saying Asiwaju Bola Tinubu would spend eight uninterrupted years as a president of Nigeria.
The PDP spokesperson, Debo Ologunagba, while reacting to Akume in a statement on Monday, boasted that the party would defeat the APC in 2027, the same way the National Democratic Congress defeated the ruling party in Ghana’s presidential election on Saturday.
Ologunagba said Ghana’s opposition victory shows the people’s power prevailing over misrule and oppressive government policies.
Former President John Mahama won Ghana’s presidential election after his main opponent, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, admitted defeat.
Ologunagba said the PDP regretted that Nigeria, “once a prosperous nation and a preferred destination for international foreign investment and one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, has been reduced to ruins by the APC.”
It noted, “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 per cent inflation rate and crippled our productive sectors leading to over 40 per cent unemployment rate.
“It mortgaged the future of our country through reckless borrowing, foisted repressive policies including the rise in the cost of petrol from N97 per litre 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 necessities of life.”
Also speaking, PDP Deputy National Youth Leader, Timothy Osadolor, made this remark following Akume’s remarks that President Bola Tinubu would stay in power till 2031.
Osadoor who slammed Akume for attempting to undermine the ambitions of others for the benefit of President Tinubu, said with such remarks 2027 is a rescue mission, adding that no individual could halt another person’s political ambition.
The Youth Leader told The PUNCH, that “Such an unfortunate statement could only have been made by someone benefiting from the maladministration of the current Presidency, as led by President Tinubu.
“I won’t blame George Akume; he has always lived a privileged life, from being a senator, governor, and now the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. So, I am sure he’s one of those who have alienated President Tinubu from the realities with lies and praise singing. They have disconnected the President from the current realities in Nigeria.
“I won’t blame George Akume because I don’t know when he last visited the market in Benue, not to mention other parts of Nigeria, as he lives on taxpayers’ money and is unaware that people are suffering.”
According to Osadolor, by 2027, Nigerians would have the opportunity to restore and rebuild the country, saying “It is most unfortunate for anyone to want to shut down the ambition of another, irrespective of what part of the country the person is from.
“This is a democracy, and as democrats, we are all committed to good governance in this country. We are committed to having the best of us represent all of us. Nobody can stop another person’s ambition.
“No person has the right or should arrogate such powers to themselves simply because they are benefiting from one corner or another of the system. Come 2027, it will be a mission to rescue, rebuild, and revive Nigeria.
“Come 2027, the people of Nigeria will have the authority to rehabilitate and rebuild the country. Therefore, it requires all well-meaning Nigerians, irrespective of where they are from, to come forward. We will look at the best of them, support them, and whoever among them emerges, it is our prayer and sincere desire that Nigerians—who have endured the last 8 to 12 years of the APC monstrosity called governance — rally around that person so that Nigeria can be saved and rebuilt.”
