A group, The Democratic Front, TDF, has said that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has no moral right to advise President Bola Tinubu on governance or arrogate to itself the magic wand to rescue the nation’s economy having plunged it into ruins for 16 years.
The group, in a statement jointly signed by its Chairman, Danjuma Mohammed and Secretary Wale Adedayo, was reacting to the communique issued by PDP at the end of it National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting.
It argued that the country has still not recovered from the mindless plundering of the economy in the PDP years.
“Imagine a political party that failed woefully and landed the country in its present parlous economic state now pontificating on efforts to revitalize the national economy as if they ever had any clue.
“Rather than bury their heads in shame because of the roles the former ruling party played in bringing the country to its knees, they are busy pontificating on the bold initiatives and reforms being initiated by President Bola Tinubu,” the group said.
The group noted that if the party’s NEC had limited itself to its desperate but unrealistic bid to unify the dilapidating structures of a deeply divided political party, which the PDP has become, that communique would have attracted better attention.
It pointed out that the absurdity and the manner the NEC members exhibited pretentious insensitivity to the tragic consequences of their party’s 16 years of misrule resonated the role PDP played to hinder the growth and development of the Nigerian state.
The group was of the opinion that a political party which plundered Nigeria’s hard earned resources and brutally squandered its national patrimony for those lengthy years was expected to display remorse and responsibility on matters of economic revitalisation and statecraft.
It added: “This litany of PDP’s failures and unprecedented maladministration will remain evergreen in our collective memory as a people.
“So it is egregiously ridiculous that PDP NEC members will cast aspersions on President Bola Tinubu’s highly performing economic team and ask him to reverse his impressively successful economic policies.”
