By Deborah Hassan
365Daily- The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, has described the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as a cartel of power mongers and political bandits seeking only to devour the nation for their selfish gains.
He made the statement at the opening of two-day retreat organised by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for its National Working Committee-elect on Tuesday, November 23, 2021, in Abuja.
Speaking on behalf of members of the House of Representatives, he posited that the failure of the APC to conduct a national convention and achieve a structured leadership at all levels across the country underscores its “rudderlessness and explains why our dear nation is in shambles under their watch.”
According to him, a political party that cannot successfully conduct its affairs, cannot be expected to successfully pilot the affairs of a nation.
Hon. Elumelu commended the incoming National Working Committee for taking a proactive step by organising the retreat to enable stakeholders brainstorm on how to build on existing structures in the party to rebuild and rescue Nigeria.
He said the event reassured Nigerians of the “readiness and capacity of our party, as a government in waiting, to constructively chart a new course and lead the charge to rescue our nation from the front.”
The Minority Leader continued: “Nigerians cannot wait for the APC, the party of barefaced liars, swindlers, treasury looters and accursed oppressors, to go in 2023, so that our country can again experience the peace and economic prosperity they once enjoyed under the PDP.
“The APC is fascist minded party. It does not believe in the unity of Nigeria. It does not believe in the prosperity, freedom and personal liberty of citizens. It does not believe in development nor even distribution of resources. It is at best, a cartel of power mongers and political bandits seeking only to devour the nation for their selfish gains.
“The APC has no answers to the myriad of problems they created for our nation. It has no solution to insecurity, no solution to the biting economic hardship and soaring unemployment rate, no solution to high cost of goods and other essential commodities, no solution to infrastructural decay and mortgaged future of our nation with N33 trillion accumulated debt under its watch.
“If anything, what Nigerians expect from the APC is to apologize for its atrocities and fizzle out of our political atmosphere, come 2023. However, I must caution that the characteristic of predatory power mongers, the APC will fight to keep its wicked claws in the neck of our nation.
“It will seek to deploy its stock-in-trade of propaganda, fake promises, false performance claims, intimidation of citizens and electoral manipulations in a desperate attempt to cling to power. We must therefore be ready to lead the charge in resisting APC shenanigans in the overall interest of our nation.”
Hon. Elumelu said the PDP must ensure an end to APC misrule by resisting their rigging plots in the 2023 elections.
“We must also, as a government in waiting, strengthen our strategies to end killings, terrorism and banditry, reunite our citizens, ensure better living standards for our people.
“We should come out with strategies to ensure greater citizens’ participation and reorder the productive energies of our people, particularly our youths, towards gainful ventures in critical sectors of our economy,” he added.