National Chairman-elect of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Iyorchia Ayu, has urged the opposition party to move beyond issuing occasional press statements.
This was disclosed yesterday by the party chairman at an event organised for the newly elected officers of the party.
According to Ayu, the party must demonstrate to Nigerians that it is ready to rebuild the country, adding that the PDP must thoughtfully articulate and design a clear programme of what it intends to achieve for the country.
According to the former senator, This is a very auspicious moment in the life of our party. It is not often that we get to assemble this way for deep thinking and exchange of ideas on the way forward for our party and our country, a country that has been badly brutalised, robbed and traumatised in the past six years plus.
Our country is in very deep trouble; so we have a duty, and Nigerians expect us, to rescue and rebuild the country”, he further decried.
We must be more than a party that just issues the occasional press statement condemning the APC government. We must demonstrate to Nigerians that years in opposition have not dented our will and desire to win and to govern for the benefit of our country. Nigerians look up to us to reunite this country which has been badly divided over the past 6 years. Nigerians want to see that we are united and ready to govern.
We must offer a clear, workable alternative to rebuild our country. Just recently the US Council on Foreign Relations published a study by two experts which said Nigeria is already a failed State that has reached a point of no return and would collapse.
“That is where the APC government has brought us to. We need not waste our energy arguing whether the American researchers are right or not. Rather, we should focus our energies, imagination and creativity towards ensuring that their prognosis does not come to pass. We must work to reverse that march towards collapse, he stated.
