The 71-year-old succeeds 80-year-old former army general Muhammadu Buhari of the same party, who stepped down after two terms in office, leaving a country facing a sea of economic troubles and security challenges. (Photo by KOLA SULAIMON / AFP)
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Ondo State chapter, said that Nigerians who were cajoled into voting for President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) are currently in pain over the economic downturns in the country.
According to the major opposition party, 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.
The Publicity Secretary of the party in the state, Kennedy Peretei, stated this in a statement while responding to the remarks made by the Chairman of the APC in the state, Ade Adetimehin, that the PDP has become extinct.
Peretei emphasised that Adetimehin ought to be apologising to Nigerians over the agonies the APC has subjected them to.
He said: “It would have been unnecessary to join issues with Mr. Ade Adetimehin, Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), 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 of the last eight years. Especially the withdrawal of fuel subsidies and their biting effect 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, if he has any sense of shame and responsibility, should have been on his knees begging the people for the huge misfortune masterminded by his party. To now open his mouth in a most careless manner to say “PDP is now extinct” is not only laughable but mischief of the highest order.”
He said 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,” Peretei said.
“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.”
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