Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar and Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State on Monday described the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as a threat to Nigeria’s future.
Atiku in a statement by his media office in Abuja said that those leading the PDP were “backers of the military.”
Speaking after registering as a card-carrying member of the All Progressives Congress in his hometown, Ubima, Ikwerre Local Government Area, Amaechi said the PDP could not save the nation from its current problems.
Amaechi further explained that the PDP had been in control of the country for many years and could not save it (Nigeria) from the problem of corruption and unemployment.
On his own part, Abubakar said it was wrong for the party to look for scapegoats instead of taking responsibility for the unenviable socio-economic state of the nation. Obviously reacting to the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Olisa Metuh’s criticism of his move to the APC, the Vice President noted that it was inappropriate for the leadership of his former party to have described him as an “ingrate.”
He said when leaders speak, they should not do so with “selective memory.” He said, “The personal insults in the PDP statement succeeded in doing just one thing – to depict its managers as childish, petulant, and above all else incompetent. It confirms the notion on the part of many that they don’t have what it takes to live up to their ‘sacred’ mandate.
“They have lost their way, and their refusal to recognise the error of their ways has prompted the shepherds to – reluctantly move on, for the nation’s sake, to build a better future for the country’s teeming population,” he added.
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