Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) has warned that deepening poverty and anger across the country could trigger a major crisis if urgent measures are not taken.

This was as it expressed optimism that the Supreme Court would “ultimately and decisively right the wrongs and correct the manifest errors contained in the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) in the interest of the unity, stability, and corporate existence of our country.”

Reviewing state of the nation’s affairs at its 75th meeting, at the national secretariat of the party in Abuja, yesterday, the board “expressed serious concerns over excruciating hardship, worsening insecurity, and a general sense of apprehension and despondency across the country, occasioned by hasty implementation of ill-planned policies of the overtly insensitive All Progressives Congress (APC) administration”.

The BoT said it was “seriously worried over continued fall in the value of the naira arising from ill-implemented policies of the APC, with attendant devastating negative effects on the economy, resulting in agonisingly high costs and unbearable pressure on families.”

According to the BoT, “APC is pushing Nigerians to the wall and it worries that the level of poverty and anger in the polity over the suppressive rule of the APC is capable of snowballing into a serious crisis if not urgently addressed.”

It noted that Nigeria is “currently in a precarious situation under the APC”, adding that citizens are looking to the PDP for “solutions and direction at this time”.

The board also restated its rejection of the recent judgment of the PEPC, which affirmed the election of President Bola Tinubu. It expressed hope that the Supreme Court would correct wrongs done by rejecting the pleas of the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

The communiqué affirmed that the board would continue to monitor the level of adherence to the rule of law by various election courts in the country and would resist what it termed massive desperation of the ruling party to turn the country into a one-party state.

It said: “The BoT is confident in the capacity and courage of the Supreme Court to ultimately and decisively right the wrongs and correct the manifest errors contained in the judgment of the PEPC in the interest of the unity, stability, and corporate existence of our country.”