THE Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed concern over the ‘worsening economic hardship’ in Nigeria.
The BoT stated this at its 78th meeting on Thursday, October 10 in Abuja.
Communiqué issued at the end of the meeting showed that the BoT assessed the state of the nation and raised “serious concerns over the worsening economic hardship, acute food crisis and general sense of misery, despondency, uncertainty and hopelessness in the country occasioned by the anti-people policies of the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration.”
The BoT urged Nigerians not to allow the suffering they faced make them to lose faith in the country but to “continue to work with the PDP in the quest to rescue the nation from the stranglehold of the APC.”
The BoT demanded that the APC take immediate steps to ensure the reduction in the price of fuel, make key investments towards food production, revamp the manufacturing sector, and mitigate the pains Nigerians faced.
Speaking on the just-concluded Edo State governorship election, the BoT condemned and rejected what it called brazen rigging of the election by the APC allegedly in connivance with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
“The BoT insists that from the votes cast at the polling units, it is clear that the PDP and its candidate, Dr. Asue Ighodalo, won the election. The PDP will take every legitimate step to ensure the recovery of the mandate freely given to our party by the people of Edo State.
“The BoT alerts Nigerians that the electoral manipulation of the Edo State governorship election is part of the sinister plot by the APC to foist a one-party system and totalitarian rule on our country, which must be firmly resisted.”
The group urged Nigerians to resist any plan by the APC to ‘rig’ the November 16, 2024, governorship election in Ondo State.
While commending the reconciliation committee of the party for its efforts to resolve disputes within the party, the BoT expressed concern over the state of affairs of the party in Rivers State and stated that efforts must be intensified to find a lasting solution to the impasse.
It urged the party’s national working committee (NWC) to urgently summon a meeting comprising the NWC, PDP Governors’ Forum, leadership of the PDP National Assembly caucus, and BoT special committee to resolve the issues.
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