Focus On Restitution, APC Advises New PDP NWC

The All Progressives Congress, APC has tasked the new leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to prioritise restitution of ill-gotten loot and functioning as a viable opposition party at the top of its agenda.

The APC in a statement issued by the National Secretary APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe, expressed concern that the Ayu leadership of the PDP was about taking off on the wrong foot of grabbing power at all costs as it claimed was the penchant for the PDP in the past.

“Going by the utterances and direction of the new PDP leadership, any hope of a refocused opposition party expected to atone for misdeeds on the country when it was in government for 16 years and as a failed opposition party following PDP’s sack in 2015 have now been quickly dashed,” the APC said as it expressed fear that the new PDP leadership was not focusing on restitution of past ill-gotten loot.

“Clearly, the PDP’s sole intent is power grabbing by any means, ignoring the need for genuine restitution, return of stolen public funds and assets still in possession of politically exposed persons during its 16-year administration and ultimately providing a truly viable and credible opposition our democracy needs to thrive.

Besides urging the new PDP leadership to focus on the restitution of alleged ill-gotten loot, the APC said:

“The PDP’s new leadership must prove to Nigerians that it is willing and ready to discard its penchant for impunity by submitting to the new democratic environment entrenched by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC government where votes count and the will of the people prevails in all electoral contests.

“This is the task before the new Senator Iyorchia Ayu-led PDP. Not empty and tired rhetoric of 2023 handover notes.

“The sit-tight syndrome headlined by the PDP’s ill-fated third-term agenda has been discarded as an undemocratic template. President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians and the international community of free and fair elections in 2023, even as he pledged peaceful transfer of power. That is the stuff of true progressives and statesmanship.

“The priority of this administration has been clearing the national rot left behind by the PDP’s shambolic handling of insecurity in its early days, its financial heist under the guise of procuring military weapons, fuel subsidy rackets, diverted loans, voodoo economics, abuse of public institutions and electoral fraud.”

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