• Opposition party can’t rescue the nation, Okechukwu insists
• APC youths list advantages of direct primaries
Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, has stated overseas loans taken below the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari have turned Nigeria into a beggar in the comity of nations.
The party, however, is guaranteed of its readiness to rescue the country if it receives the backing of residents in 2023.
Ayu spoke for the duration of a chat with BBC Hausa monitored at the weekend.
He delivered that the birthday celebration has organised a workshop for its newly elected officials, to maintain them abreast of methods to confront insecurity in the country.
“The situation in our u . s . is so awful that absolutely everyone on a trip from Abuja to Kaduna, whether with the aid of avenue or through rail, would now not have a peaceful mind.
“It is a should that we proper the wrongs in our party to get people’s support. Every facet must be given the threat to remark so that together, we work in unison to achieve what the human beings desire,” he said.
But a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu, said PDP lacks the moral latitude to promise Nigerians a higher deal. He argued that Nigerians are guaranteed of sustainable improvement if APC continues to rule.
“How can Nigerians have confidence our sister political party, the PDP, given their antecedents, riddled with have confidence deficit? We recognize that instances are hard. Methinks, it is better to enable APC to fix Nigeria. Where does one start from?” he asked.
Citing alleged misapplications of cash when the PDP dominated the country, he recalled how Kassim Afegbua alerted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of corruption in the opposition party.
He said: “Can we neglect the squandermania of the $23 billion Greenfield Refineries – one intended for Lagos, one for Kogi and one for Bayelsa? A golden chance value to our economy.”
“Recall that on March 19, 2015, Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) queried Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, then Minister of Finance thus, ‘May we below the Freedom of Information Act 2011, request the full disclosure of transactions regarding the three Greenfield Refineries and petrochemical plant contracts awarded on May 13, 2010, by using President Goodluck Jonathan to Chinese State Construction and Engineering Corporation Limited (CSCEC) at $23 billion, supposed to be placed at Bayelsa, Kogi and the Lagos States’.
“Secondly, why are they useless on arrival, as six years down the lane, neither the three Greenfield Refineries nor petrochemical plant is under construction. The three Greenfield Refineries, one understands, on completion, have been to add 750,000 barrels per day potential to Nigeria’s refining infrastructure and create over a million jobs.
“The Greenfield Refineries fiasco befell when our Excess Crude Account had over $40 billion and the China State Construction Corporation even upped their equity to eighty per cent. The unlucky effect is that $15 billion used to be fleeced off our country wide treasury each year for the importation of subtle petroleum merchandise for over a decade.”
MEANWHILE, the childhood wing of the APC has thrown its weight at the back of the use of direct primaries.
Led via Mr. Ismaeel Ahmed, the group argued that the mode would create an enabling surroundings for credible candidates to emerge in political parties.
Ahmed, who spoke after assembly zonal youths leaders in the country, said: “As individuals of the party, we love direct primaries due to the fact it’s an probability for open inclusion. Everybody receives worried in deciding. Of course, there are sure matters that we are afraid of – the magnitude of the exercise; whether or no longer any political birthday celebration in this country have to be constrained to a single way of bringing out candidates; and whether or no longer we have the manpower to man 8,812 wards when we are doing primaries.
“But, other than that, it is an possibility for young humans to take part in the process. So, it is some thing that we will encourage.”
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