2023: PDP Entertaining Nigeria With Tales By Moonlight, Can’t Challenge APC – Okechukwu
The Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), Mr. Osita Okechukwu has mocked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), describing it as a party entertaining Nigerians with Nollywood actions.
Okechukwu, a known chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), made the submission on Thursday while speaking with newsmen at his office.
He blamed the PDP for the current challenges facing the country including the collapse of the national grid as well as the acute fuel scarcity and other economic woes, submitting that the wasteful years of PDP in power are still affecting the APC administration led by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Okechukwu went on to describe the recent meeting held by the PDP governors in Abia State as a jamboree, saying the party has nothing to offer Nigerians in 2023.
According to him, PDP did nothing in its sixteen years in power apart from embezzle money and sell off national assets to associates at ridiculous prices.
“No matter how you look at it, PDP knows they are responsible for biting petrol, diesel crisis, and the collapse of the national grid. The collapse of Nigeria’s electricity infrastructure is the culmination of PDP’s 16 years of monumental corruption and financial recklessness,” he said.
“Is PDP still insisting on behaving as a Nollywood cast? For God’s sake PDP should forthwith desist from play-acting because the party cannot like Pontus Pilate wash its hands off from the material conditions it created, which drove Nigeria into World Poverty Capital, palpable insecurity, biting petrol and diesel scarcity and collapse of the national grid.
“Yes we made some unforced errors; however Nigerians now know better and are wise enough to remember PDP’s motto – “Share the Money”. Instead of using the Oil Windfall to fix infrastructure in sixteenth years they resorted to sharing the money. That’s the infrastructure deficit President Buhari has been borrowing to fix,” he added.
The VON DG stated that the PDP embezzled millions of naira that should have been used to procure military hardware and also made it difficult for the current administration to address the challenges in the power sector because of the way it handled the privatization of the sector.
He said the errors of the PDP years is what President Buhari is still trying to fix.
“PDP tied President Buhari’s hand of unbundling the electricity value chain by corrupting the privatisation process. The agreements they had was akin to that of tenant writing agreement for the landlord which in this instance is the Federal Government of Nigeria then led by the PDP. “The outcome today is the poor performance of Distribution Companies (DISCOs) nationwide.
“Or do we forget how the billions voted to procure military hardware were siphoned by PDP top dogs for personal gains? It pains one when people allege that APC and PDP are same. This is wrong allegation for APC devoted resources to physical and social infrastructure and unprecedented agrarian revolution. Whereas PDP shared money,” Okechukwu said.
This article was originally published on Nigeria News
