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Ex-minister lists mistakes of APC-led federal government
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Alhaji Adamu Maina Waziri, a former minister of police affairs, has spoken on the 2015 presidential election and explained why the opposition party may win in 2019.
Adamu Maina Waziri
In the interview granted to Daily Sun, Wasiri stressed that despite the loss in the election, members of the Peoples Democratic Party would “fight for the soul of the PDP”, come back in 2019 and perform better than they performed in 2015.
When asked why some party’s members spoke against Jonathan’s candidature, while others openly campaigned for the ex-president in the last election, Waziri said:
“There are always two sides to the coin. We had people who campaigned for Jonathan and we lost. Those people are now saying, yes, we made a mistake. We had people who didn’t campaign for Jonathan and we lost. They are now saying we told you so. But the target is to redeem the party. First, PDP must take responsibility for what has happened. We should not be living in self-denial. PDP should come to terms with its past misdeeds and offer the necessary apologies and entreaties to Nigerians. At the end of the day, no matter what you do, you are a human being, you are bound to make mistakes. Let us accept that we made mistakes and amend the mistakes we made by not falling into traps.”
“I assure you that we will fight for the soul of PDP. Unlike what happened in 2014, 2015, this time around, we will not exit the party. We will remain in PDP.”
Speaking further, the ex-minister noted that the PDP is hopelessly weak now and needs to be rebuilt to regain its strength.
“Nobody is saying that the PDP must reclaim the presidency and 24 states it had in 2019. What we are saying is that we want to restrategise, regain our strength so that we will be a viable political opponent to the APC. This will enable us to win elections.
“The situation now is, having lost the presidency, two third of states in Nigeria, we are hopelessly weak. We are saying that there is hope that we can come back in 2019 and perform better than we performed in 2015. Possibly, if the APC will continue the way it is doing, we will win the presidency or we will give them a fight for their money,” he said.
Waziri listed some mistakes that the APC-led federal government is making that the PDP can take advantage of.
“The budget is one of them. We are not talking of the delay of the budget but the controversy that has dogged it which ought not to be exhibited by a party that has an overwhelming majority in the National Assembly.
“Secondly, the economy has not been favourable. Every Nigerian knows that his or her standard of living was better in 2015 than as it is in 2016. I am not listing out the reasons. But what we are concerned about now is that the economy is so bad. Government is hinging it on PDP misrule. People did not elect the government to tell us about the misrule of PDP, people elected it to give Nigerians hope and better life.
“Thirdly, there is no cohesion in the APC. Unfortunately, there is also lack of cohesion in the PDP. Fourthly, the APC through President Buhari has set a bar of integrity. We must reach that bar to be a competitor to the APC,” he said.
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