President Bola Tinubu’s apparent negligence and abdication of his constitutional duties were responsible for the worsening insecurity; the wanton killings, banditry, kidnapping, marauding of communities and other acts of terrorism in various parts of our country.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stated this in a communique issued at the end of the 99th National Executive Committee meeting held in Abuja on Tuesday May 27, 2025.
The party, in the communique signed by its Acting National Chairman, Iliya Damagum said Nigeria was in sorry and melancholic state of affairs, just as it attributed “the worsening economic hardship and extreme poverty in the country occasioned by the ill-advised and ill-implemented polices” to the Tinubu administration.
The party listed hike in fuel price, wanton increase in electricity tariff, multiple taxes and unexplained charges on services, resulting in collapse of the productive sector, closure of millions of businesses, massive loss of jobs, rise in criminality as some of the ill-advised and ill-implemented policies .
The communique said the “NEC condemns the policy inconsistency, wholesale corruption, massive treasury-looting, budget padding and diversion of public funds that pervade the Tinubu administration resulting in infrastructural retrogression and loss of investors’ confidence in our system.”
The party told Tinubu to rescind all its anti-people policies and take practical steps to tackle the insecurity and economic recession in the country.
Following the multitude of defections from the PDP and other parties to the APC, the communique said the party has ejected what it described as a sinister plot by the Tinubu-led APC to turn Nigeria into a one-Party totalitarian state as evidenced in the desperate attempts to stifle and annihilate opposition parties through open siege, threats and intimidation of opposition figures and institutions of democracy in Nigeria.
“It is clear that this plot is borne out of APC’s mortal fear of inevitable defeat in 2027 due to its dismal failure in government.
“The NEC restates our Party’s belief in Democracy, the Rule of Law and the Supremacy of the Will of the People as expressed through their free and unhindered democratic participation in multi-party politics and governance,” the communique stated.
The party has also ratified the composition of the Committee on the National Convention and fixed the date to be Thursday 28th to Saturday 30th August 2025, just as it also ratified the composition of the Committee on the Zoning of National Offices ahead of the National Convention.
The responsibility of organizing the National Convention Committee is Gov. Ahmadu Fintiri who serves as Chairman, while Gov. Ademola Adeleke would assist as Vice Chairman and Gov. Peter Mbah – Secretary.
The PDP also appointed Gov. Douye Diri as Chairman of the Zoning Committee, while Gov. Dauda Lawal is Vice Chairman and Gov. Caleb Mutfwang -Secretary.
9. NEC also received the Resolution of the South East Zonal Executive with regard to the issue of the National Secretary of our Party. The party has agreed to consider the Resolution of the South East Zonal Executive at the next NEC meeting scheduled to hold on Monday, 30th June, 2025.
It would be recalled that last week the South East caucus threatened to exit the party if it is not allowed to have the position of the National Secretary of the PDP.
