Alhaji Lai Mohammed, National Publicity Secretary, APC |
“It
is time for the PDP to take a long, hard look at itself in the mirror and
change everything that is ugly about the party, instead of wasting its energy
and time on irrelevancies,” the party
said in a statement issued in Lagos on Friday by its National Publicity
Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
It said the
PDP cannot continue to do things in its trademark old, crooked ways and expect
a different result.
“’The
PDP just doesn’t get it, despite being the architect of its own fall from
power. The days of winning elections with the aid of slush funds, brigandage,
deceit and rigging are gone forever, hence the PDP must return to the drawing
board to fashion out decent and empirical ways of repackaging and selling
itself to Nigerians, just like the opposition did when they decided to come
together,” APC said.
The party
said the PDP’s ceaseless and ill-advised attack on the judiciary, now its
favourite whipping boy, the endless put-down of government agencies and the
demonization of everyone but itself will fetch the party nothing but political
grief.
“Instead of
a blanket and unsubstantiated accusation against the judiciary over the
election petition tribunal rulings in Rivers and Akwa Ibom, the PDP would have
shown itself to be a serious party if it had provided statistics on how many of
the cases filed at the various election petition tribunals nationwide, after
the 2015 elections, have so far been decided in favour of the PDP and the APC,
so that Nigerians can see whether the PDP has not won any single petition or
whether all the cases have been won by the APC.
“The PDP has
forgotten that the same judiciary that it is willfully castigating today had
decided many election petitions in favour of the party and against the APC,
whether at the Governorship, National Assembly or State Assembly levels, and
the ruling party has not opted to bring the whole house crashing down on everyone
just because of that.
“Going
down the memory lane, when the PDP took itself to court in 2007 over the
Governorship election in Rivers, the same judiciary that has now become an
apparition to the PDP awarded the Governorship to a candidate who never even
featured on the ballot because the party crookedly substituted his name. Then,
the PDP did not see the judiciary as being used by the then PDP Administration,
neither did the opposition castigate the judiciary,” it said.
APC
admonished the PDP to stop yowling and engage in strategic thinking that could
propel the party forward, rather than continue to be nostalgic about its past,
which is neither dignifying nor enlivening.
“The
16 years of the PDP – which the party has continued to shamelessly celebrate –
are nothing to celebrate, either for the impunity that characterized the
party’s governance, the massive looting of the national treasury that is still
being assessed or the bastardization of all the values that the nation holds
dear. Thankfully, President Muhammadu Buhari has brought sanity to governance
even as the PDP has continued to try to distract him with their endless
wailing.
“Our
parting word for the PDP: Stop throwing juvenile tantrums against everyone,
especially the judiciary. Stop wasting your energy on frivolous accusations.
Learn how to communicate your thoughts to Nigerians in a more civilized way
and put your shoulder to the wheel if you want to reincarnate as a force to be
reckoned with in our country’s political firmament,” APC said. (nationalmirror)
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