Change of slogan won’t save you, PDP tells APC

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the All Progressives Congress’ change of slogan from ‘change’ to ‘progress’ will not make Nigerians forget the hardship they have continued to go through under President Muhammadu Buhari’s government.

The party said that the APC should perish the thought of deceiving and beguiling Nigerians by the change of name attempt, describing such thought as a direct insult on the intelligence of Nigerians and the worst form of deceit from a “failed political party that had brought nothing but hunger, afflictions and daily bloodletting to the nation.”

The party said in a statement on Sunday by its national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, “How can the APC think that by changing its slogan, Nigerians will suddenly forget that in the last three years of its administration, the nation has not witnessed the CHANGE it promised and that all the campaign promises upon which they rode to power have all turned out to be lies?

“Whereas under the APC misrule all aspects of our national life have witnessed unprecedented deterioration, its leaders are busy thinking of how to beguile Nigerians with a change of slogan instead of preparing their handover notes.

“It is a notorious fact that the APC has nothing to progress with unless they mean the perpetuation of their misrule, violation of human rights, de-marketing of our nation, wrecking of our economy, increased unemployment, instigating of disunity among the people as well as the acute hunger and poverty for which they have become synonymous.

“It is imperative to inform these APC leaders that the solution to the problems they have unleashed on our nation today does not lie in sloganeering. We therefore urge Nigerians to shun this contrivance of another deceptive lexicon aimed to once again beguile our people, now that election is around the corner.”

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In another statement on Sunday, also through Ologbondiyan, PDP condemned APC’s alleged plot to “clampdown, victimize and sack workers as well as appointees in ministries, departments and agencies ahead of the 2019 presidential election.”

The party described the alleged plot as extremely “wicked, reprehensible and unacceptable.”

“Nigerians were terrified when APC national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the party’s National convention revealed the party’s plan to undertake a blanket victimization of federal civil servants and appointees perceived to favour or habour opinions different from those of the APC.

“Our investigation reveals that part of the plot, which is feared might even commence soon, is to frame up such public servants as fifth columnists as openly suggested by Asiwaju Tinubu and hang spurious allegations on them for political reasons,” PDP said.

 

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