The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus has charged Nigerians to see 2019 as the restoration year for the country.
Secondus said that the year 2019 is critical in the life of the nation as it would be a turning point in the emerging political evolution.
The PDP National Chairman said in a goodwill New Year message to Nigerians that the future of the country lies on the voting decisions they make in the new year.
A statement on Monday by his Special Adviser (Media), Ike Abonyi, quoted Secondus as saying that: “The general election in the country this year 2019 provides ample opportunity for the country to be rescued and restored as the biggest black nation in the world both economically and politically.
“This year provides us the ground to save our democracy and the country from the comatose state the misrule and inept administration of the All Progressives Congress, APC has placed it”.
Secondus said that 2019 provides the way for us as a country to correct the mistakes made in 2015 which has dangerously brought the country to this sorry state.
According to the statement, the National Chairman said that good decisions by the voters this year is all that is needed to recover the country from the hands of the destroyers.
“Our nation did not bargain for this quantum of avoidable blood letting and loss of human lives when it voted in 2015.
“Nigerians did not vote in 2015 for their economy which was the best in the continent to be so damaged to merit her the poòr capital of the World.
“It was not the desire of Nigerians in 2015 when they voted to have such frightening unemployment record as confirmed by the National bureau of statistics after nearly four years.
“The growing insecurity in the land, the senseless killings across the country, the endless mauling down of our troops by terrorists and the apparent helpless and insensitive disposition of the government all raise a lot of concern and calls for real change in our polity”.
Against these backdrops, the PDP boss warned that it would be a huge disservice to the nation and invitation to anarchy if the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), fails to give the country free, fair and credible election this year to enable the will of the people prevail on who governs them.
He warned that a huge consequences await anybody who undermines the will of the people by trying to manipulate the electoral process.
Prince Secondus expressed worry that if PDP elevated Nigeria’s democratic status by introducing electoral reform that saw it defeated and had a seamless transition to an opposition, the international community should be concerned at the refusal of President Muhammadu Buhari to sign an amended Electoral Act that would have facilitated a smooth and transparent election.
He urged global democracies to show more than passing interests in the forthcoming general election on Nigeria because of the strategic importance of the country in the democratic community in Africa.
OWEDE AGBAJILEKE, Abuja
