The chairman of DAAR Communications, owners of AIT TV and Raypower radio stations, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC), came to power by accident, with no clear plan on how to govern the country.
Dokpesi who is vying for the national chairmanship of the PDP said: “The APC has shown they came to power by accident with no clear plan on how to govern the country. They lack the required capacities and experiences to lead Nigeria.
“Those that said they have better ideas than the PDP have left the country in hunger. They have divided the country and failed to deliver on their electoral promises. The cost of kerosene, diesel, tomatoes, garri, rice and others are at all-time high.”
Dokpesi who spoke in Ebonyi state during a visit to the PDP members in a bid to garner their support for his candidacy, referred to a statement by the Deputy National Secretary of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Jerry Obasi, who pronounced Nigeria’s economy to have been “clinically dead,” and called on President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to urgently seek the help of economic surgeons.
“The truth remains that the economy is in a very bad shape. The economy has been battered. It has been given a technical knock-out, the type that Tyson used to give to his opponents in his time, the economy has gone extinct.”
Dokpesi said that the task of dislodging APC is made easier and quite evident in the performance of a political party he said has shown it lacked the prerequisite experience and capacity to rule.
“APC has demonstrated clearly it cannot rule Nigeria. The party lacks the experience, unlike PDP who ruled the country for many years.”
Dokpesi said APC merely “stumbled” on power and has shown through its actions and inactions that it was clearly not prepared for the task of leadership.
He said all that PDP needs to do is to quickly re-invent itself and send APC packing in 2019.
But re-inventing PDP is proving difficult at the moment as the party seems to be sliding deeper in leadership crisis.
Dokpesi described Ali Modu Sheriff’s attitude to power as typifying the same old order that must first give way in the party to breath fresh air into it. [myad]
