From Our Correspondent
A pro-democracy group, The Democratic Front (TDF) has said that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) could not arrogate to itself to deliver on the nation’s economy, having plunged the country into ruins for sixteen years.
In a statement emailed to TheNewsZenith, on Monday, the group argued that the country has still not recovered from the mindless plundering of the economy in the PDP years.
The Group’s Chairman Danjuma Mohammed and Secretary Wale Adedayo, jointly signed the statement.
This was in reaction to the communique issued by PDP at the end of its National Executive Committee meeting.
“Imagine a political party that failed woefully and landed the country in its present parlous economic state now pontificating on efforts to revitalise the national economy as if they ever had any clue.
“Rather than bury their heads in shame because of the roles the former ruling party played in bringing the country to its knees, they are busy pontificating on the bold initiatives and reforms being initiated by President Bola Tinubu,” the statement read in part.
According to TDF, the position of the PDP calls for outright condemnation and repudiation by every well-meaning Nigerian.
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“If the party’s NEC had limited itself to its desperate but unrealistic bid to unify the dilapidating structures of a divided political party, which the PDP has become, that communique would have attracted better attention.
“The absurdity and the manner the NEC members exhibited pretentious insensitivity to the tragic consequences of their party’s 16 years of misrule resonates with the role PDP played in hindering the growth and development of the Nigerian state.
“A political party, which plundered Nigeria’s hard-earned resources and brutally squandered its national patrimony for those lengthy years is expected to display remorse. PDP is also expected to display responsibility on matters of economic revitalisation and statecraft.
“Who will easily forget the ring-fencing of hundreds of state-owned companies and investments through an opaque privatisation process.
“Nor can we forget the massive diversion of oil revenue into private foreign bank accounts and the unconscionable sale and concession of the Nigeria power sector to unqualified and incompetent proxy companies.
“All these brought the nation down to its knees and unleashed poverty and economic misery on Nigerians.
“This litany of PDP’s failures and unprecedented maladministration will remain evergreen in our collective memory as a people.”
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