PDP lucky to escape Buhari, Tinubu probe – Osita Okechukwu
Former Director General of Voice of Nigeria, VON, Mr Osita Okechukwu has asked leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to count themselves lucky for having not been probed by successive All Progressives Congress, APC, administrations.
Okechukwu, a chieftain of the APC, was reacting to PDP’s quit notice to the APC after an opposition party won Ghana’s presidential election.
PDP spokesman, Debo Ologunagba, had said: “The verdict of the people of Ghana in this presidential election is a signal to the APC that its days are numbered, as the power of the people in Nigeria just like in Ghana, will surely prevail, end the APC’s oppressive rule, and return Nigeria to the path of good governance, security, political stability, and economic prosperity on the platform of the PDP in 2027.”
Responding through a statement made available to DAILY POST on Tuesday, Okechukwu said when he read the above statement by PDP’s spokesman, his only submission “is that the PDP clan should thank Almighty God that Buhari and Tinubu out of sheer statesmanship refused to probe the planlessness and squandermania of sixteen locust years of PDP.”
According to him, the country was yet to recover “from the humongous culture of impunity and trust deficit PDP planted in our soil, among which are just to mention a few.”
He said, “Corruption which governed the privatisation of our electricity value chain, a key to industrialisation.
“Blatant rigging of 2007 general elections which the foremost beneficiary, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua out of good conscience and noble magnanimity publicly acknowledged the malfeasance which characterized his victory.
“Conscienceless sale of legislative and ministerial quarters, the rentage which annually is bleeding our treasury.
“The neglect of $23 billion Greenfield Refinery, which could have saved over $70 billion expended on importation of refined petroleum products and which simulated the economic hardship of today.”
On why for nine years the APC administration could not fix them, Okechukwu recalled “efforts made by the Buhari’s administration to reopen talks on the Greenfield Refinery which the Chinese regrettably rebuffed.”
He said that “we cannot in a hurry forget the deliberate breach of the rotation convention of president from north to south, plus utter disregard of Section 7 of the PDP’s constitution which expressly mandates zoning.
“PDP should not insult the sensibility of Nigerians by assuming that we are morons who will easily forget how they put us in harm’s way.
“Rather they should thank Almighty God that Buhari and Tinubu did not want to probe them and that’s why Nigerians cannot decipher the difference between the two political parties.”
