Osita Okechukwu
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress and Director General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu, has taunted the leadership and certain chieftains of the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over a weekend visit to former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.
National Chairman of the PDP, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, had led members of his national working committee to the Abeokuta residence of the former president.
Chief Obasanjo at the weekend meeting was reported to have told the team led by Senator Ayu that he was no longer interested in associating with the erstwhile ruling party.
Okechukwu while speaking with newsmen in Abuja said the rejection of PDP by Chief Obasanjo was a signal to another defeat in the 2023 presidential election.
The Director-General of the VON said he was surprised that a party whose membership card was torn to shred by the former president could still go cap in hand to seek his support.
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He said: “I have my sympathy for our sister political party, PDP, over this misadventure. Just imagine the uncommon electoral boost the party would have generated if Chief Obasanjo had accepted their request.”
“The statesman’s re-entry could have boosted the morale of the rank and file of the PDP. In short, the rejection is a bad omen, particularly coming at the eve of the crucial 2023 presidential election.”
Responding to criticisms that the Buhari administration has plunged the nation to a needless huge external debt arising from incessant borrowing, Okechukwu told newsmen that the claim by the national chairman was misplaced as he argued that the loans were being channelled to the provision of needed critical infrastructures.
“I have my tremendous respect for His Excellency Iyorchia Ayu, an intellectual and seasoned academic; however one needs to name some of the huge and uncountable infrastructural deficit PDP bequeathed to Buhari’s regime, which compelled borrowing for development. “The Ibadan-Lagos standard gauge rail line and other rail lines abandoned by PDP; the less than transparent privatised Power Sector, which has dangerously stifled economic development.
“One must also mention the Lagos-Ibadan, Lagos-Abeokuta, 2nd Niger Bridge, Kano-Maiduguri, Abuja-Makurdi, including other 13,000 federal road networks nationwide. The Buhari administration is also equipping the Armed Forces emasculated by the PDP in its 16 years of misrule.”
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