You are the architect of your own fall- APC tongue-lashes PDP

The All Progressives Congress has dismissed the communique by the Peoples Democratic Party National Caucus on the “so-called political developments” in the nation, describing it “a rehash of the opposition party’s infantile whining which will not save it from going down unless it rebrands urgently”. In a statement in Lagos on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the ruling party said, ”It is time for the PDP to take a long, hard look at itself in the mirror and change everything that is ugly about the party, instead of wasting its energy and time on irrelevancies.”

APC said the PDP could not continue to do things in “its trademark old, crooked ways” and expected a different result. It added, “The PDP just doesn’t get it, despite being the architect of its own fall from power. The days of winning elections with the aid of slush funds, brigandage, deceit and rigging are gone forever, hence the PDP must return to the drawing board to fashion out decent and empirical ways of repackaging and selling itself to Nigerians, just like the opposition did when they decided to come together.” The party said the PDP’s “ceaseless and ill-advised attack on the judiciary, now its favorite whipping boy, the endless put-down of government agencies and the demonisation of everyone but itself” would fetch the party political grief.

APC stated, ”Instead of a blanket and unsubstantiated accusation against the judiciary over the election petitions tribunal rulings in Rivers and Akwa Ibom states, the PDP would have shown itself to be a serious party if it had provided statistics on how many of the cases filed at the various election petitions tribunals nationwide, after the 2015 elections, have so far been decided in favor of the PDP and the APC, so that Nigerians can see whether the PDP has not won any single petition or whether all the cases have been won by the APC.

”The PDP has forgotten that the same judiciary that it is willfully castigating today had decided many election petitions in favor of the party and against the APC, whether at the Governorship, National Assembly or State Assembly levels, and the ruling party has not opted to bring the whole house crashing down on everyone just because of that.

”Going down the memory lane, when the PDP took itself to court in 2007 over the governorship election in Rivers, the same judiciary that has now become an apparition to the PDP awarded the governorship ticket to a candidate who never even featured on the ballot because the party crookedly substituted his name. “Then, the PDP did not see the judiciary as being used by the then PDP administration, neither did the opposition castigate the judiciary.”

APC admonished the PDP to stop “yowling and engage in strategic thinking” that could move the party forward, “rather than continue to be nostalgic about its past, which is neither dignifying nor enlivening”.