The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has urged
President Bola Tinubu to prefer solutions to the challenges of hunger,
insecurity, high fuel cost, and other challenges facing Nigerians.
The PDP said if the President has no clear-cut solution to the challenges, he shouldn’t bother with a 2025 New Year message for the citizens.
The major opposition party made the submission in a statement on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary,Debo Ologunagba , in which it held that the past addresses by President Tinubu have been full of hopeless rhetorics.
The party challenged President Tinubu to find
solutions to the challenges of insecurity, resuscitate the economy, create
jobs, ensure credible elections and guarantee better living standards for
Nigerians.
It also accused the All Progressives Congress (APC)
government of being insensitive to the pains of Nigerians.
The PDP accused the ruling party of feeding their
luxurious lifestyles from public funds while Nigerians continue to bear the
pains of a mismanaged economy.
The PDP, however, congratulated Nigerians on the
dawning of the year 2025 and urged them not to lose hope in the expectation for
a better Nigeria.
“The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) congratulates
Nigerians on the dawning of the year 2025 and charges President Bola Ahmed
Tinubu not to taint the new year with an address that will not proffer
immediate and concrete steps to reduce the price of fuel, address widespread
hunger and provide clear-cut measures to guarantee security of lives and
property in the country.
“This position by the PDP is predicated on the fact
that previous addresses by Mr. President in the last 18 months dwelt only on
hopeless rhetoric, unsubstantiated statistics, false promises, conjured
performance claims and validation of flawed elections without concrete
mechanisms to address insecurity, resuscitate the economy, create jobs, ensure
credible elections and guarantee better living standard for Nigerians.
“The PDP maintains that President Tinubu must speak to
the issues of unbridled corruption, deceit, budget padding, reckless and
wasteful spending directed to fund luxury appetite of APC leaders,
insensitivity to the pains of citizens and total disregard to the obligation of
government which has made life unbearable for Nigerians under his watch.
“The Party also challenges President Tinubu to use the
address to give account of the billions of Naira officially reported to have
accrued from the removal of subsidy on petroleum products.
“Furthermore, Mr. President should come clean on his
public commitment to fight corruption by ordering an investigation and recovery
of the over N25 trillion reportedly stolen by APC leaders and officials in
government who have turned government agencies to Automated Teller Machines
(ATM) to siphon funds for their benefit while other Nigerians wallow in abject
poverty, hunger and starvation.
“Equally worrisome is the failure of the APC
government to revisit and address the reported cases of alleged State-backed
killings in various parts of the country, particularly the 2020 EndSars
killings and inhuman denial of the massacre of promising Nigerian youths in
that sad and repulsive incident.
“The last 18 months have been the most excruciating
period to Nigerians since the Civil War with citizens now resorting to suicide
and slavery mission aboard due to the hopeless situation foisted by the
anti-people policies of the suppressive, exploitative and insensitive APC
government which continues to reject every appeal and suggestion for review of
such policies.
“More disheartening is that while Nigerians die of
hunger and insecurity, APC leaders and officials in government continue to
flaunt their luxury appetite and lifestyle in utter disdain to the feelings of
millions of impoverished citizens.
“The PDP cautions the APC not to carry over such
attitude into 2025 as such would further exasperate the patience and
sensibility of Nigerians.
“Our Party however urges Nigerians not to lose hope in
the nation but remain law-abiding and approach 2025 with optimism of a new dawn
in their determination to defend our nation’s Constitutional Democracy,
adherence to the Rule of Law, demand for transparency and accountability in
government; in firm resistance to suppression and pervasive violations by the
APC.
“This, the PDP believes is the sure step in the quest
by our Party and Nigerians to return our country to the path of stability and
economic prosperity which has eluded her since the calamitous coming of the APC
in 2015.
“The PDP salutes Nigerians and wishes all a Happy
2025,”the statement reads.
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