Why we begged Nigerians for forgiveness —PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday explained why it had to applogise
to Nigerians for the mistakes it made while in power for 16 years.

The party’s national chairman, Uche Secondus, tendered the apology on Monday, promising that the PDP if given another chance by Nigerians will do better having learnt from experience.

Explaning why it had to beg for forgiveness in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP on Tuesday, said that the action was a pathway to “national healing, renewal of hope and remobilization of the citizenry for the task of rescuing the nation from our current pathetic situation occasioned by the painful misrule of the All Progressives Congress (APC).”

The party added that as a responsible party, committed to the good of Nigerians, that it was deeply saddened that “our people are suffering because the nation allowed the APC, a movement that has neither structure nor plan, to scheme itself into governance, devastate the country, wreck our once robust economy and plunge our citizens into a situation of hunger, starvation and daily bloodletting.”

The party said that it was not unmindful of the fact that lessons have been learnt and that Nigerians across board are now looking up to its repositioned and rebranded platform to pull the country from the brinks and return her to the path of true democracy, national cohesion and economic prosperity, which were the hallmarks of PDP’s 16 years.

The PDP said that while certain mistakes were made in its internal administration prior to the 2015 general election, its new leadership has already smoothened the rough edges to ensure strict adherence to internal democracy and good governance in all processes.

“It is imperative to further state that our apology has to do more with the fact that we made certain mistakes that allowed an anti-people movement to take over governance in our country.

“Our situation under the APC has become so pathetic that the world is now contemplating on how to help us. Under the APC misrule, the average life span of Nigerians has become abysmally low, purchasing power is eroded, the middle class has been wiped off, security is almost non-existent, all the economic gains of the PDP years have been destroyed, and our nation is now placed on auto-pilot.

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“It is painful to note that under the nightmarish rule of APC, Nigerians have become so frustrated that they now consider suicide mission and slavery as options.

“Therefore, our apology is to ask Nigerians, once again, to put their trust in the rebranded PDP, particularly, as our party is the only platform that is committed to the national agenda of peace, unity, justice and prosperous nation,” the opposition party said.

This came just as the APC has called on the PDP to go beyond asking Nigerians to forgive it, to returning funds looted during its 16 years reign.

 

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