PDP chieftain carpets FG, APC over performance

A former secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Kogi State Governorship Campaign Council (2015), Mr Mohammed Kabir Usman on Monday berated the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government, accusing it of visiting Nigerians with strife, hunger, poverty induced sickness and agony.

Usman said this during his formal declaration of intent to contest the office of the National Publicity Secretary (NPS) of the party in its forthcoming December 9, elective national convention.

The NPS aspirant pointed out that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has, so far, demonstrated no action, but national neglect, greed and division,” in the governance of the Nigerian state.

He pointedly declared that the Buhari-led administration lacks the vision to propel the nation to greatness.

He however charged members and supporters of the PDP generally to hold the Buhari administration accountable, noting that what the party needs is a functional publicity division capable of evaluating the non-performance of the APC, thus “making them increasingly unattractive to the electorate in 2019.”

His words: “One of the pressing responsibilities of this office is to hold, and continue to hold the APC government to its campaign promises which clearly they are unable to fulfil.

“I need your support to recreate a new and vibrant publicity machinery in the PDP which will bravely confront and distort the newly contrived corruption and organised graft that the APC has institutionalised in Nigeria,” he said.

Usman promised that if elected, he would, amongst others, ensure the “Fostering of strategic media partnership with electronic, print and digital media organisation”

and the “Convening of a PDP annual media week/interactive session to evaluate and publicize the achievements” of political office holders elected on the platform of the party.

Barrister Usman, who hails from Kogi State, North-Central Nigeria, has served the PDP in sundry capacities in the past few years.