The National Secretary of the All Progressives
Congress, Alhaji Mai Mala Buni, says the
opposition Peoples Democratic Party has
refused to learn from its past mistakes that
brought the party to ruins.
Buni identified the PDP’s penchant for impunity,
non-adherence to due process and gross
disregard for internal party democracy.
Buni stated this in an interview with Daily Trust
Newspaper, published on Thursday.
The APC National Secretary also dismissed
reports suggesting an internal crisis in the APC.
He described the reports as “speculative”.
Buni charged the PDP to prevail on its members
and government officials under the PDP
administration involved in looting of the
country’s resources to return the stolen wealth
back to government coffers.
He said: “It [PDP] should publicly direct its
members mentioned in the diversion of public
funds to return same or sanction them. It is
only then that Nigerians will take PDP as a
party that is willing to change the status quo.”
Buni said the PDP’s 16 years of waste only
succeeded in creating for the party, a crisis of
confidence and dishonour.
According to the APC National Secretary, the
PDP, after 16 years of waste, maladministration,
incompetence, massive corruption and
ineptitude cannot pose any threat to the APC.
He said: “You will also recall that security to
lives and property in the last 16 years was
brought to its lowest ebb. Nigeria also recorded
its worst infrastructural decay, while young
graduates were left without jobs. The ugly and
unfortunate Immigration employment scam is
still very fresh in our memory, when
government officials defrauded jobless youth of
millions of Naira and some were killed in the
process.
“These and many more atrocities committed
under the PDP administration have, and will
continue to distance Nigerians from the party. It
is therefore careless, fraudulent and misleading
for anybody to think that Nigerians will
contemplate entrusting their mandate quite so
soon to PDP for another round of
maladministration and hopelessness. Therefore,
to think of PDP wrestling power from APC is a
mission impossible.”
Reacting to the recent boast by the new PDP
National Chairman, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff,
that he will bring back PDP members that
defected to the APC, Buni said Sheriff’s wishes
were “funny and laughable”.
Daily Trust
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