The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has challenged the governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC to immediately test their party’s popularity among Nigerians by conducting free, fair and credible local council elections in states under their control.
The PDP said this was the only way the APC could test its level of acceptance in the country.
It alleged that there were indications that the ruling party was not comfortable with elections due to its alleged poor performance.
The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, stated this in a statement in Abuja on Sunday.
He said, “We all know that the APC is mortally afraid of going into any election, particularly at the grassroots, as Nigerians across board are bitter with them for their deceit and the wrecking of our once robust economy.
“Nigerians are also at pains over the poor welfare direction of the ruling party which has resulted in the penetrating hardship now being suffered under the APC-controlled Federal Government’s misrule.
“The APC is petrified because Nigerians have renewed their interest in the PDP as the only genuine people-oriented party.
“This new thinking among Nigerians has been clearly demonstrated with the PDP’s sweeping victory in the Osun West Senatorial District bye election as well as the recent local council polls in Ekiti and Delta states.
“Today, the APC knows it cannot go back to the same electorate it scammed in 2015 with lies and empty promises; promises of bogus jobs, monthly stipends, free meals, free houses, reduction of fuel price, bringing the naira to the same value with the US dollar and other phantom promises.
“The APC knows it cannot face the more than eight million Nigerians it has rendered jobless with its reckless policies. They know that judgment awaits them from thousands of workers who were unjustly sacked in the states where the APC governors rule, particularly in Kogi and Kaduna states.”
He added that there was no way the APC could also return to the states where countless helpless families’ breadwinners painfully paid the supreme price due to the alleged untold hardship under its misrule.
“The party also knows it cannot return to the families of those slaughtered in Benue, Taraba, Adamawa, Borno State and other parts of the country by marauders encouraged and emboldened by the indifference of the Federal Government and the unguarded comments from unpatriotic Presidential aides,” he added.
