The People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Ondo State chapter, yesterday, said that Nigerians who were cajoled into voting for the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the February 25, 2023 presidential election are currently writhing in pain over the economic downturns in the country since the inception of the ruling party.
According to the major opposition party in the state, those who voted for the APC have begun to see their moves as miscalculations, following the alleged regret of their action a few months ago.
Publicity Secretary of the party in the state, Kennedy Peretei, stated this in a statement while responding to the remarks made by Chairman of the APC in the state, Ade Adetimehin, that the PDP has become extinct.
Peretei said that Adetimehin ought to be apologising to Nigerians over the agonies to which the APC has subjected them.
He said: “It would have been unnecessary to join issues with Ade Adetimehin, Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Ondo State, over his unguarded statements about the Peoples Democratic Party, but the need to put records straight.
“Adetimehin is probably the only person who is oblivious to the fact that Ondo State people hold his party, the APC, and its inhuman government, responsible for their suffering and agony in the last eight years, especially the withdrawal of fuel subsidies and their biting effects on everybody.
“He does not realise that even those who were tricked to vote APC in the 2023 general elections are already regretting and lamenting their miscalculation that has brought about untold hardship on them and their families.
“Such a man should have been on his knees begging the people for the huge misfortune masterminded by his party. To now say “PDP is now extinct” is not only laughable but mischief of the highest order.”
“The majority of the 203 councillors Adetimehin is celebrating for joining his party have not been active in the last two cycles of elections in Ondo State. A few of them have been in the APC since 2016. How the defection of such characters translates to the PDP being extinct can only be understood by someone like Adetimehin, who is presiding over a dangerously fragmented APC in the state but deludes himself with fun-seeking decampees who tell him tales by moonlight.
“The PDP in Ondo State is unruffled by a few persons who are in a self-destruct misadventure in Adetimehin’s sinking APC ship. While we sympathise with such people, it is pathetic that those who should be weeping are dancing and rejoicing. But in no distant time, reality will dawn on them that, indeed, they lived a lie all along. PDP cannot be extinct; there are no such signs. And it will never be,” he added.
