Chief
Raymond Dokpesi, one of the aspirants for the national chairmanship position of
the Peoples Democratic Party, has said the party made a lot of mistakes during
the 16 years it occupied the Presidency.
Dokpesi,
who spoke during the week at the PDP secretariat in Umuahia, the Abia State
capital, said selfish ambitions of some leaders of the party, retarded the
vision, which led to the eventual loss of power to the All Progressives
Congress in the 2015 general elections.
He,
however, said the APC, with its one year in power, had proved that it was
incompetent to rule the country.
Dokpesi
said, “Today, the PDP is described as the most corrupt party in the country;
they said our leaders are clueless and corrupt. That was how they described
former President Goodluck Jonathan, but with the way the APC is running this
country, can we say we have a country? Is the South-East not marginalised and
denigrated?
“The
current economic crisis in the country is also alarming; our mothers cannot
afford food items to sustain their families any more. Is this the kind of
Nigeria we want for our youths? Is this the kind of change we want?
“By
the special grace of God, we cannot sit back and allow the country to continue
to decline.
“We
cannot sit back without giving the APC good opposition, we cannot sit back and
not rebrand, re-energize and revitalise the PDP so that by 2019, we can give
the APC a purposeful opposition and contest as a party in order to win the next
presidential election.”
Source: The Punch
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