The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has warned a former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Attahiru Jega against comparing the party with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Jega had, in an interview with BBC Hausa, asked Nigerians to dump the two major Political parties, PDP and APC over their alledged failure to bring about desired growth and development since the past 20 years.
While the PDP ruled the country from 1999 till 2015 (16years), the ruling APC took over power in 2015.
However, in a statement on Monday, national publicity secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, condemned the comparison made by the former INEC boss.
” Trying to compare the incompetent and decadent APC to the highly productive and development-oriented PDP is an unpardonable disservice to our nation and calls to question the sense of judgment of Professor Jega,” Ologbondiyan said.
“It is indeed unfortunate that Prof. Jega, as a professor of political science, could portray an ignorance of the manifest contrasts between the robust fortunes of our nation under the PDP and the wasteland she has become under the APC.
“Perhaps the Professor needs to be reminded of how the PDP worked hard to revamp our nation’s economy, paid off our huge foreign debts and went ahead to grow the economy to become the largest investment hub in Africa as well as one of the fastest growing economies in the world, with Fitch B+ rating; only for the APC to wreck the economy and turned our nation into the world poverty capital and a debtor country in a space of six years.
