The People’s Democratic Party, PDP Governors’ Forum has on Monday accused President Muhammadu Buhari of “turning the Presidential Villa, that belongs to all Nigerians, into the new APC headquarters, where coerced PDP members are being paraded at intervals.”
The forum made this known in a communiqué issued at the end of its 11th meeting held in Bauchi on Monday.
Recalled that the forum had been consistent in accusing the APC of coercing its members into joining the party.
The Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party PDP Governors’ Forum, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State has revealed that some of his former colleagues who left the PDP for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) did so in order to have their sins forgiven.
Tambuwal said decent members of the PDP can never be intimidated to joining the APC.
He said the APC led government has woefully failed Nigerians in its entire six years of being in power.
“So if you are a bad and corrupt man, you come over to APC where your sins are forgiven. We do not believe and agree in intimidation, we will remain in PDP, we will capture power, and we will change Nigeria, we will improve Nigeria”, he said.
The communiqué had also called on the APC led Federal Government to “collaborate more with State Governments to stem the unemployment scourge affecting the youths of Nigeria, through technology and increased production in all fields of endeavour, reiterating that Government should stop paying lip service on the Ease of Doing Business, as foreign direct investments have continued to fall partly due to obstacles placed on foreign companies wishing to invest in Nigeria.
A glaring example is that of FACEBOOK who insisted on investing in Nigeria rather than Ghana, and is being frustrated by regulatory authorities.”
“On security of lives and properties, in addition to our earlier recommendations, it is time to bring the activities of bandits, kidnappers and terrorists to an end, through increased use of military equipment, traditional means of conflict resolution and technology for surveillance and the development of the political will to flush them out.
Kidnapping, banditry and terrorism ARE NOT BUSINESS VENTURES as claimed by APC but heinous STATE CRIMES, that is destroying the Nigerian economy, the educational and social future of our children and causing significant social upheavals in society, the PDP Governors admonished”, the forum stated.
