APC insensitive to suffering Nigerians – PDP Governors

Governors elected on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) platform have criticised the governance of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for blaming statement issued after the PDP Governors Forum meeting in Ibadan.

PDP Governors depicted statements accredited to the Secretary of the APC Caretaker/ Extraordinary National Convention Planning Committee, Senator John Akpanudoedehe, as insensitive.

The standpoint of the PDP governors was enclosed in a statement entitled, “The PDP Governors Forum Ibadan Declaration Is Patriotic and in the National Interest…APC response is insensitive to suffering Nigerians,” endorsed by the Director-General of the PDPGF, C.I.D Maduabum, in Abuja, on Wednesday.

The statement partly read, “The attention of the PDP Governors Forum, PDP-GF, has been drawn to a statement credited to the Secretary of the illegal APC Caretaker/ Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Senator John Akpanudoedehe while reacting to the patriotic positions of the Forum at its Ibadan meeting.

“He was quoted as saying that the Ibadan meeting of the PDP-GF was a mere “political jamboree and its outcome a waste of time, with no substance.

“He further claimed that Buhari’s government has done a visible job in upgrading the country’s security architecture, governance, electoral reforms, and addressing perennial farmers and herders clashes.

“It is most disheartening that an officer of an illegal, unelected, and unlawful APC contraption is living in a fancy world. If one may ask, where did President Buhari do Electoral reforms in the last 6 years other than vetoing two bills sent to him by the eighth NASS on Electoral reforms?

The PDP Governors showed discontent that the APC has permitted its platform to deteriorate to a level where an unelected person would act on its behalf to endeavour to debris patriots’ efforts who were giving support to efforts targeted to find permanent solutions to the security and economic difficulties confronting the country.

It added, “The PDPGF Communiqué had called on Mr President, to summon the Nigeria Police Council, which is constitutionally mandated to organise and administer the Nigeria Police Force, a statutory organ of state comprising of Mr President as Chairman, the 36 State Governors, IGP and Chairman Police Service Commission as members, that has practically not been meeting since 2015, to begin to grapple with the immediate problems of policing, pending a constitutionally based restructuring.

“How can a meeting of 15 State Governors that made concrete suggestions on how to improve the almost hopeless Nigerian condition under the APC Government be termed a Jamboree?

“No wonder that after more than a year of usurping the offices of the APC National Executive Committee, the Caretaker Committee is unable to organise a National Convention and had to take the unprecedented step, just this week of describing those who sought for the holding of the APC National Convention, as “the handwork of political jobbers” and “fifth Columnists”.

“This time calls for statesmen and patriots to work together to rescue Nigeria.”