The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has congratulated Nigerians on the occasion of the nation’s 60th independence anniversary.
The party, in a statement signed by it’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan expressed sadness that Nigerians are celebrating on a despairing mood due to the social, economic, and security challenges that have confronted our nation in the last five years but urged the citizens to keep hope alive and continue to work for unity, stability, and progress of our nation.
Ologbondiyan described as depressing that while the nation had attained lofty heights in all spheres of life since independence; such national attainments in all areas particularly in national cohesion have been eroded by the misrule of the last five years.
The Spokesperson said it is disheartening October 1st signposts the sacrifices of national heroes past in the quest for national freedom as well as the collective determination to live harmoniously, engender good governance and succeed as one people under a democratic rule and noted that such pursuits have been undermined by five years of a divisive, repressive, retrogressive, corrupt and incompetent administration.
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He pointed out that under five years, the gains achieved as an independent nation, have all been reversed by thoughtless policies including the mortgaging of nation’s sovereignty to foreign interests through loans and utter neglect of productive sector, leading to the wrecking of a strong economy and turning of the nation into the poverty capital of the world.
Ologbondiyan said corruption and impunity in high places,executive high-handedness, abuse of human rights, electoral manipulations, disobedience to court orders, security compromises, constitutional violations, disdain for separation of powers among others threatens National unity.
The party therefore called on President Muhammadu Buhari to save the nation from collapse by using the occasion of this 60th independence anniversary to reposition his government, and urgently address the economic and security challenges that have escalated under his watch.
Editor Paul Akhagbemhe
