By Valentine Amanze
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that its apology to Nigerians was the pathway to national healing, renewal of hope and remobilisation of the citizenry for the task of rescuing the nation from the current pathetic situation occasioned by the painful misrule of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Through its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Tuesday, PDP stated that it was saddened that Nigerians were suffering because they allowed the “APC, a movement that has neither structure nor plan, to scheme itself into governance, devastate the country, wreck our once robust economy and plunge our citizens into hunger, starvation and daily bloodletting.”
The party said that it was not unmindful that lessons had been learnt and that Nigerians were now looking up to its repositioned and rebranded platform to pull the country from the brinks and return it to the path of true democracy, national cohesion and economic prosperity.
PDP also admitted that while certain mistakes were made in its internal administration prior to the 2015 general election, its new leadership had already smoothened the rough edges to ensure strict adherence to internal democracy and good governance in all processes.
“It is imperative to further state that our apology has to do more with the fact that we made certain mistakes that allowed an anti-people movement to take over governance in our country.
“Our situation under the APC has become so pathetic that the world is now contemplating on how to help us. Under the APC misrule, the average life span of Nigerians has become abysmally low, purchasing power is eroded, the middle class has been wiped off, security is almost non-existent, all the economic gains of the PDP years have been destroyed, and our nation is now placed on auto-pilot.
“It is painful to note that under the nightmarish rule of APC, Nigerians have become so frustrated that they now consider suicide mission and slavery as options,” the party stated.
It however explained that its apology was to ask Nigerians to put their trust in the rebranded PDP, stressing, “our party is the only platform that is committed to the national agenda of peace, unity, justice and prosperous nation.”