PDP replies APC on projection to hold presidential powers for next 32 years

▪︎Says Nigerians have reached a national consensus to kick you out of office in 2023

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Tuesday, described the bragging by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to remain in power at the centre for the next 32 years, as a direct confrontation to the generality of Nigerians, who had already reached a national consensus to kick it out of office in 2023.

The party in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, also described APC’s claim of registering 36 million Nigerians in their failed fictitious registration exercise as another political hoax and empty claim, which could not sway Nigerians in any way.

The PDP said it was aware that the APC National Caretaker Committee Chairman, Governor Mai Mala Buni made such a garrulous statement in the belief that APC’s intimidation of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the judiciary and security agencies as well as deployment of thugs from neighboring countries, would help them to subvert the will of Nigerians in future elections.

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“In Buni’s whims and thoughtlessness, Nigerians should make themselves ready for another 32 years of anguish, pains, hunger and starvation, insecurity and limitless suffering.

“This is the height of recklessness, insensitivity and affront to the sensibilities of Nigerians,”PDP said.

The main opposition party also counselled the fizzling APC to end its pipe dreams and arrogant boasting and wake up to the reality that its tenure in office as well as its life as a political party would meet an inevitable end in 2023.

“Governor Buni and his co-travelers in the illegal APC National Caretaker Committee must note that Nigeria is not their personal estate or the vassal of any group of power mongers.

“The APC ought to know that Nigerians have never been and will never be suppressed or conquered by any political interest.

“In fact, Nigerians are now, more than ever before, ready, willing and prepared to resists the APC in its plots to use manipulations to perpetuate itself in power.

“It is incontrovertible that if our nation goes into a midterm election, the APC will not get up to 20 percent of the votes cast.

“They should therefore stop addressing Nigerians like a conquered people with no voice, will and aspiration,” the PDP added.

The party asserted that Nigerians were already set to deal the APC a death blow at the polls in 2023, as it had since reached a definite conclusion that there was no way “our nation can survive if the APC is allowed to remain in power beyond 2023.”

The PDP counselled the APC to know that its Contact and Strategy Committee was of no moment as Nigerians had suffered under its rule and could not afford to allow it to be in power a day beyond May 29, 2023.