The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed shock over the
announcement by the APC that it has engaged the services of a foreign
firm, AKPD Message and Media to boost its electoral chances in the 2015
elections, adjuring Nigerians to resist this attempt by the party to throw
the nation back to imperialism, 54 years after independence.
A statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa
Metuh said this was not only a clear justification of its stand that the
APC is anti-Nigeria but another insult on the hard working citizens of
our dear country.
“In engaging the services of a foreign firm, the APC has shown that it
does not have faith in our people, our indigenous consultancy firms and
the teeming well qualified, world acclaimed Nigerian professionals and
technocrats. Just as the leopard cannot change its spots so also is the
APC unable to hide its true colour as an anti-people organisation, tied
to the apron string of foreign interests in utter disdain for fellow
Nigerians and the age long clamour for local content.”
“That APC has an inner contempt for Nigerians is no longer hidden. Its
latest action is not only an affront to nationalism but a weird embrace of
neo-colonialism at a time national pride and assertiveness have assumed a
rule of engagement in global politics. We are afraid that neo-colonialism
is the guiding ethos of the APC’s quest to rule Nigeria. It is now
apparent that the leadership of this opposition party may have perfected
plans to use same foreign interests to siphon national resources and
reverse the pro-national socio-economic foundation laid by the founding
fathers of Nigeria.”
According to the PDP , “there is no way the APC can justify this crime
against our people. Nigerians are discerning enough to see the clever
attempt to cover this monumental insult by dropping the name of President
Obama, who was duly re-elected by the popular votes of the
people of the United States as a beneficiary of this consultancy service.”
“This ulterior motive of the APC explains the reason it has mindlessly
been opposing and attacking all the people oriented projects and
policies of the PDP-led Federal Government which have enthroned an
unprecedented empowerment of indigenous firms, an economic agenda strongly
embedded in the manifesto of our great party, seeking the transfer wealth
from public institutions to the private sector.”
The statement added that “unlike the APC whose ideological thrust is to
relegate Nigerians and their indigenous firms, the PDP believes in
Nigerians and will continue to work with them and to create the enabling
environment for hardworking private individuals and indigenous firms to
thrive in all fields of endeavor including media, manufacturing, trade,
commerce and other critical sectors of the economy.
“This explains why companies like Intel Services, Globacom, AIT, Dangote,
Oando, UBA and a host of other ingenious firms have continued to excel and
compete favourably with their peers all over the world, a trend the APC
wants to scuttle”.
The PDP therefore urged Nigerians to continue to note the unpatriotic and
anti-people actions of the APC. It said all well meaning Nigerians must
rise up and resist the APC adding that “a party which has clearly shown
that it has no regard for the talents of the people it seeks to govern can
never win the trust of Nigerians.”