popular mandate and multi facet Next Level Agenda to Nigerians ahead of
2023 general elections.
The party said this in a statement by Sen. John Akpanudoedehe, National
Secretary of its Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning
Committee (CECPC), on Tuesday in Abuja.
Akpanudoedehe said that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration
was implementing one of the world’s largest and wide ranging social
investment programmes which was benefitting the vulnerable and had taken
many Nigerians out of poverty.
“Commendably, we are well on course to delivering other aspects of the
Next Level agenda,” he said.
According to Akpanudoedehe, under President Buhari, every state of the
federation has an ongoing federal road, infrastructure project.
He added that the APC, therefore, had no intention to trade words with
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), its governors and leaders on the
propriety of infrastructure projects undertaken by the current
administration and which state deserved a federal project.
Akpanudoedehe said from previously abandoned to new projects under
Buhari-led APC administration, every state of the federation, including
the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) had an ongoing and major Federal
road.
This, he said, was in addition to other critical infrastructure project,
adding that this was a fact that could be verified.
“Following the gale of defections that has hit the PDP since the advent
of the Gov. Mai Mala Buni-led APC CECPC, we hear the PDP is doing all it
can and begging its members and leaders to remain in the party.
“We wish the PDP good luck in its futile attempts: the PDP is apparently
deluding itself that its cravings to return to power at the centre
amounts to the wishes of Nigerians.
“This is incredibly delusional, it is important to remind the PDP that
in a democracy and progressive politics, power is not taken but given
through a popular mandate by the people,” he said.
Akpanudoedehe added that the current state of the PDP did not show that
it was anywhere close to earning such mandate from the electorate come
2023.(NAN)