Stop planting discord in the S/West, PDP tells APC

The Peoples Democratic party (PDP) has cautioned the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to desist from planting seeds of discord among PDP members in the South West, saying that the zone is already disenchanted with bad governance and lack of Federal Government presence in the zone.
In a statement on Thursday in Abuja signed by the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party noted that APC was disappointed that there were no crises after the party’s national convention, and now is poisoning the minds of PDP members from the zone over their inability to clinch the position of the national chairman having failed in stopping the convention.
He said, “The people of the South West have, however, seen through the antics of the APC propaganda machine and would not allow themselves be deceived.
“The South West leaders who contested for the PDP National Chairmanship position are all men of quality and credibility; the fallout of the convention cannot, in any way diminish their standing as core nationalists and statesmen whose interests, particularly in the PDP, and the nation, are not driven by personal or ethnic considerations.
“In fretting, the APC does not seem to realise that people in the Southwest are as much victims of its misrule as other Nigerians. Those in the Southwest suffer from the current chaotic state of the economy which the APC administration has inflicted on the nation; they groan from the APC’s negative policies on foreign exchange as well as the heavy taxations that are killing industries and businesses; they suffer the misery in the land resulting from the spiral rate of inflation, decline in the stock market and decayed.
“The APC’s attempt to plant seeds of discord among our members in the South West merely betrays their fears of losing control of the region.
“The South West is too sophisticated to fall for the gimmicks of the APC. They cannot be distracted or deceived by baseless propaganda and cheap resort to ethnic politics. The South West will not fail to join other despairing Nigerians in voting out the APC in the 2019 election,” he states.
According to him, the exit of APC in 2019 is inevitable. “They must note that the more they fight the PDP, the more united we become and the more Nigerians see through their deception and emptiness. Today, many are leaving their ranks in droves. Very soon their party will be empty and its collapse will be loud.”
He maintained that the defeated aspirants from the region have put their experiences behind and have joined the one big family while assuring all Nigerians that PDP has been repositioned to provide direction and return the nation back to the path of unity and prosperity.