By Gabriel Enogholase
BENIN—SENATE Deputy Whip, Senator Francis Alimikhena, has condemned the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and those criticising the moves and activities of the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, in his bid to reposition the party ahead of the 2019 general election.
Senator Alimikhena, in a statement by his aide, Mr Benjamin Atu, in BeninCity, Edo State, yesterday said: “The high and mighty in PDP have been jittery since Oshiomhole emerged as the APC National Chairman.
“The gale of defections from the PDP to the APC is just the beginning, it has not ended yet. Many more are warming up to dump the PDP and the opposition party is aware that they will suffer serious depletion ahead of the 2019 general election.
“President Muhammadu Buhari has offered a clean break from the corruption that characterized the PDP government which laid siege to leadership of the nation by enriching themselves against the overall benefit of Nigerians.
“The APC administration has come as a long awaited saviour to deliver the nation from poor leadership. President Buhari has broken the grip and jinx of inequality which had closed leadership opportunity against Nigerian youths and women in the previous years.
“President Buhari and Oshiomhole are not the problems of the PDP, rather PDP has made it difficult for good governance to thrive due to their ruthless rule in past years.
“All the issues in the vendetta against the Buhari administration were all carry over from the PDP administration that misruled Nigeria since the inception of democracy before President Buhari’s emergency to rescue the nation.
“All malicious utterances against the President and APC National Chairman are propagated by those who ought to hide their faces in shame but rather are not hiding their faces but raising their voices in arrogance to demand for another opportunity and right to return the nation to the era of rampage and wasteful spending without respect for God, humanity and morality.”
Senator Alimikhena maintained that, the APC was committed to putting the nation back on track to catch up with the rest of the world in science and technology, infrastructure, democracy and good governance.
