… says ‘Nigerians can’t endure your misrule for another 26 years’
.APC needs to consolidate delivery of democracy dividends-Buni
Riled by Tuesday’s boasting by the ruling All Progressives Congress to retain power at the centre for 32 years, main opposition Peoples Democratic party has said that the APC must leave Aso Rock Presidential Villa at the end of the eight-year tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.
PDP stressed that Nigerians could no longer endure the alleged misrule of the ruling APC and could not wait for President Buhari’s two-term tenure to come to an end in 2023.
National Chairman of the APC Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Gov. Mai Mala Buni, had earlier said on Tuesday that his party would remain in power for the next 26 years.
Buni, who is also the governor of Yobe State, spoke during the inauguration of the APC’s 61-member Contact and Strategy Committee at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja.
But the PDP swiftly deplored the plan by the ruling APC to retain power at the centre for another 26 years, describing it as a direct confrontation to the generality of Nigerians.
PDP spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, said Nigerians were already tired of the ruling party and had made up their minds to vote them out of office in 2023.
According to him, “The PDP also describes APC’s claim of registering 36 million Nigerians in their failed fictitious registration exercise as another political hoax and empty claim, which cannot sway Nigerians in any way.
“The PDP is 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, will help them to subvert the will of Nigerians in future elections.
“In Buni’s whims and thoughtlessness, Nigerians should make themselves ready for another 26 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.
“The PDP counsels the fizzling APC to end its pipe dreams and its arrogant boasting and wake up to the reality that its tenure in office as well as its life as a political party will 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 aspirations.
“The party asserts that Nigerians are already set to deal the APC a death blow at the polls in 2023, as they have since reached a definite conclusion that there is no way our nation can survive if the APC is allowed to remain in power beyond 2023.
“The PDP therefore counsels the APC to know that its Contact and Strategy Committee is of no moment as Nigerians have suffered under its rule and cannot afford to allow it to be in power a day beyond May 29, 2023”
We are working towards ruling Nigeria for 32 years – APC
Earlier, the APC disclosed that it was planning and working towards ruling Nigeria for 32 years.
Buni had said the ruling party needed to be in power to consolidate on the delivery of the dividends of democracy, which it had been delivering since 2015 when it was first elected.
He said that it was to achieve this objective that the APC set up the high-powered committee to map out strategies and prepare grounds for its actualisation.
He added that the ruling party, under his leadership, had achieved a lot in terms of its core mandate of reconciling aggrieved party members and attracting new ones.
He said this also made it possible for the APC to engage party leaders at all levels to take part in party activities as members of one committee or another.
According to him, “The constitution of the Strategy and Contact committee therefore, is to consolidate the achievements we are making in building a strong party with a solid structure that would accomplish APC to stand the test of time.
“Our vision is to provide a wheel that will drive the party to go beyond 6th, 7th and even 8th terms of office to effectively implement the party manifesto, improve the lives of Nigerians and, to remain Nigeria’s leading political party.
“This committee is therefore very key to our process of transition towards successful congresses and national convention and, to establish a very solid, reputable and reliable future for the party.
“The high powered committee is to be chaired by His Excellency the Executive Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Badaru Abubakar.”