- Says New Year Message Offers ‘No Hope’
- As Lukman Challenges Nigerians To Kick-Out APC, Tinubu In 2027
THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged President Bola Tinubu to investigate and recover more than N25 trillion allegedly stolen by leaders and government officials of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The party made this call in a New Year message titled ‘Address Insecurity, Fuel, Food Crisis’ signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba.
PDP also called on the President to address the critical challenges of insecurity, food and fuel supplies to ease suffering among Nigerians.
The party, while felicitating Nigerians on the dawning of the year 2025, urged Tinubu not to taint the New Year with what would not proffer immediate and concrete steps to reduce the price of fuel, address widespread hunger and provide clear-cut measures to guarantee security of lives and property in the country.
According to the party, previous nationwide address by the President in the last 18 months dwelt only on hopeless rhetoric, unsubstantiated statistics, false promises, conjured performance claims and validation of flawed elections without concrete mechanisms to address insecurity, resuscitate the economy, create jobs, ensure credible elections and guarantee better living standard for Nigerians.
It maintained that President Tinubu must speak to the issues of unbridled corruption, deceit, budget padding and reckless, wasteful spending directed to fund the luxury appetite of APC leaders. The party, however, urged Nigerians to keep on believing in the country.
…Tinubu’s New Year Message Offers ‘No Hope’ – PDP
Also, the PDP says President Bola Tinubu’s New Year message was devoid of plan to address unemployment and hunger plaguing Nigerians. The party said this in a statement issued by its spokesman, Debo Ologunagba, describing the president’s New Year speech as self-satisfying, which offers no hope in sight for Nigerians. Ologunagba said Tinubu’s administration is completely disconnected and unconcerned with the economic hardship in the country.
“Nigerians were appalled that despite the prodding by the PDP and well-meaning citizens, President Tinubu’s New Year speech did not articulate any specific direction for the nation or proffer solutions to the myriad of problems caused by APC’s misrule.
“President Tinubu’s speech again underlines APC’s insensitivity to the anguish of Nigerians by failing to present any definite policy roadmap towards reducing the price of petroleum products, addressing the widespread hunger in the land, and revamping our ailing productive sector,” the statement read.
According to the PDP spokesman, Tinubu did not articulate any solution-based direction for the critical sectors such as electricity, oil and gas, road infrastructure, and food production, among others. He said the message was also pathetically devoid of a precise plan to address unemployment through strategic investment to stimulate multisectoral small and medium scale enterprises in the country.
…As Lukman Challenges Nigerians To Kick-Out APC, Tinubu In 2027
Meanwhile, a former National Vice Chairman, North West, of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Lukman has called on Nigerians to rise up and ensure the defeat of the ruling party and President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 general elections to rescue the nation from poverty and misrule.
Lukman, in a statement issued, yesterday, said the only way this could be achieved is for Nigerians to focus on producing a functional political party that respects its own rules.
He emphasised that such a functional political party must be distinctively different from all existing registered political parties in the country.
He said: “The expectations for free, fair, and credible elections in Nigeria may elude Nigerians once more. Or, as was the case in 2015, we could have relatively free, fair, and credible elections in 2027, which may only result in the defeat of APC and President Bola Tinubu, with the attendant danger of retaining the status quo of producing leaders who are emperors, who would only pretentiously commit to resolving Nigeria’s challenges.
“As Nigerians, we must rise to this challenge and make the defeat of APC and President Asiwaju not only possible in 2027 but, most importantly, guarantee the election of truly democratic leaders and not emperors. “This should be about properly organising a political party that could allow for the emergence of party leaders at all levels through internal competition”.
