PDP, threat to Nigeria’s future – Atiku, Amaechi

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar

FORMER Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State on Monday said that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party was a threat to the nation’s future.

Atiku in a statement by his media office in Abuja said that those leading the PDP were “backers of the military.”

Amaechi, who spoke shortly after registering as a card-carrying member of the All Progressives Congress in his hometown, Ubima, Ikwerre Local Government Area, said the PDP could not save the nation from its current challenges.

President Jonathan had during the formal defection of a former governor of Sokoto State, Attahiru Bafarawa, to the PDP, boasted that only the ruling party could save Nigeria.

But Amaechi 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.


Amaechi, who observed that Nigeria’s economy was no longer growing, pointed out that the APC was on a mission to rescue the nation from the PDP through the creation of employment for jobless Nigerians.Atiku also urged the leadership of the PDP to get off the moral high horse and stopped name-calling, which he described as the party’s childish response to the crisis of confidence rocking the PDP.

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 scatthing criticism of his move to the APC, the Vice President noted that it was inappropriate for the leadership of his former party to describe him as an “ingrate.”

He said that as a former Vice President and someone who had worked hard for the formation of the PDP, he deserved respect and decent language from the PDP leaders.

He said when leaders speak, they should not do so with “selective memory.”

Source: Punch