Apresidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, has charged Nigerians to rescue the country from the grip of the ruling All Progressives Congress in next year’s general elections.
Turaki said all Nigerians, including statesmen, must take up the onerous task of rescuing the nation from “the atrocious rule of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in order to save the country for the future generations.”
There is hunger and anger in the land today, triggering friction among Nigerians
The PDP presidential aspirant made the call while consulting with the Katsina State Executive Committee of the PDP and local government chairmen elected on the platform of the party.
Turaki regretted that the prices of basic foods and services had gone up by four times under the APC government from the levels they were when the last PDP Administration was voted out “through negative propaganda and outright lies by APC.”
The PDP presidential aspirant further said, “Look at the exchange rate of the Naira today to the dollar and other major currencies. Also, look at the outrageous number of people that are losing their jobs and the businesses that are collapsing from the time APC took over power.
“There is hunger and anger in the land today, triggering friction among Nigerians.”
Turaki also said the PDP was happy that Nigerians believed the promises made by the then APC presidential candidate, Buhari to perform “miracles” in government, noting that the people were now better informed that he sweet-talked them only to deliver failed promises compared to the evidence of performance by successive PDP Administrations.
He expressed sadness that the government had foisted the worst level of divisiveness on Nigerians, and warned that if it continued to create chaos and causes serious refugee problems, the international community might be forced to intervene.
“We have lived together for ages and understood our plurality and complexities. This government wants to destroy all these, otherwise, how do you explain the emergence of deadly friction between the Tivs and the Fulanis, who had been trusted friends historically? Yet, this government has failed to trace the root causes of the problem so as to resolve it,” he said.
Turaki assured that if he secured the mandate of his party, he had the integrity, intellect, vision and the strength to assemble a credible pan-Nigerian team to tackle Nigeria’s myriad problems to the admiration of the people and the international community.
The Chairman of the Katsina State PDP, Hon. Salisu Yusuf Majigiri, stated that the only projects initiated by the APC government in the state were the construction of a prison, and a helipad being used by the governor in contrast to the unparalleled development by the previous PDP administrations.
The state government, he stated further, had borrowed over N70billion in three years with nothing to show for it, while past PDP administrations never borrowed a kobo to run the government.
