The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed the
communique issued by the PDP National Caucus on the so-
called political developments in the nation as a rehash of
the opposition party's infantile whining which will not save
it from going down unless it rebrands most urgently.
''It is time for the PDP to take a long, hard look at itself in
the mirror and change everything that is ugly about the
party, instead of wasting its energy and time on
irrelevancies,'' the party said in a statement issued in
Lagos on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji
Lai Mohammed. It said the PDP cannot continue to do
things in its trademark old, crooked ways and expect a
different result.
''The PDP just doesn't get it, despite being the architect of
its own fall from power. The days of winning elections with
the aid of slush funds, brigandage, deceit and rigging are
gone forever, hence the PDP must return to the drawing
board to fashion out decent and empirical ways of
repackaging and selling itself to Nigerians, just like the
opposition did when they decided to come together,'' APC
said
The party said the PDP's ceaseless and ill-advised attack on
the judiciary, now its favourite whipping boy, the endless
put-down of government agencies and the demonization of
everyone but itself will fetch the party nothing but political
grief. ''Instead of a blanket and unsubstantiated accusation
against the judiciary over the election petition tribunal
rulings in Rivers and Akwa Ibom, the PDP would have
shown itself to be a serious party if it had provided
statistics on how many of the cases filed at the various
election petition tribunals nationwide, after the 2015
elections, have so far been decided in favour of the PDP
and the APC, so that Nigerians can see whether the PDP
has not won any single petition or whether all the cases
have been won by the APC. ''The PDP has forgotten that the
same judiciary that it is willfully castigating today had
decided many election petitions in favour of the party and
against the APC, whether at the Governorship, National
Assembly or State Assembly levels, and the ruling party
has not opted to bring the whole house crashing down on
everyone just because of that.
''Going down the memory lane, when the PDP took itself to
court in 2007 over the Governorship election in Rivers, the
same judiciary that
has now become an apparition to the PDP awarded the
Governorship to a candidate who never even featured on
the ballot because the party
crookedly substituted his name. Then, the PDP did not see
the judiciary as being used by the then PDP
Administration, neither did the opposition castigate the
judiciary,'' it said.
APC admonished the PDP to stop yowling and engage in
strategic thinking that could propel the party forward,
rather than continue to be nostalgic about its past, which is
neither dignifying nor enlivening. ''The 16 years of the PDP
- which the party has continued to shamelessly celebrate -
are nothing to celebrate, either for the impunity that
characterized the party's governance, the massive looting
of the national treasury that is still being assessed or the
bastardization of all the values that the nation holds dear.
Thankfully, President Muhammadu Buhari has brought
sanity to governance even as the PDP has continued to try
to distract him with their endless wailing.
''Our parting word for the PDP: Stop throwing juvenile
tantrums against everyone, especially the judiciary. Stop
wasting your energy on frivolous accusations. Learn how to
communicate your thoughts to Nigerians in a more
civilized way and put your shoulder to the wheel if you
want to reincarnate as a force to be reckoned with in our
country's political firmament,'' APC said.
Alhaji Lai Mohammed
National Publicity Secretary
All Progressives Congress (APC)
Lagos, Oct. 30th 2015
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