₦airaland Forum

APC Is Everything But Responsible Opposition – PDP
Says Opposition Party Adds No Value To The Peace,
Unity And Progress Of Nigeria
In our quest for a robust democracy where a vibrant
opposition keeps the party in power on its toes via
constructive criticism and offering alternative policy
plans, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had upon
the registration of All Progressives Congress (APC) on
July 31, 2013 congratulated the party and advised it to
enrich the political space with positive ideas.
We again admonished the party along the same line
after the election of its National Executives on June 14,
2014 to “ensure an issue based opposition that will
purposefully and constructively engage and challenge
the PDP with decency and maturity as prescribed by
democratic tenets and principles.”
Stating that Nigerians deserve a vibrant and patriotic
opposition driven only by the national interest, we
charged the new APC leadership to “put the unity and
welfare of Nigerians ahead of other considerations and
jettison all divisive tendencies including unguarded
statements that overheat the polity and pitch
Nigerians against one another”.
As we inch towards the 2015 general elections, it has
become crystal clear that we had in error dressed the
APC in oversized robe. We clearly charted for them a
job that is way beyond their pay grade. We can say
without any fear of contradictions that the APC in its 14
months of existence has shown that no serious minded
person should call it an opposition party as it has
demonstrated to be nothing more than a band of
anarchists, scaremongers and idle politicians.
The motley assembly of political opportunists and
frustrated office seekers in over a year of its
registration has issued 117 press statements which
ALL have been devoted to abusing President Goodluck
Jonathan and PDP officials and promoting division
among Nigerians.
There has not been ONE press statement in which the
APC had taken up any major policy issue by the PDP
and offered Nigerians how it intends to do it better if it
ever had the chance to govern the country. Statement
after statement, all the APC pours out are bile, hate
insult and low-quality propaganda from the stable of
its Goebbelian ilk and Chemical Ali breed.
In the same vein, APC leaders have continued to make
inflammatory utterances tailored to incite hatred and
violence and ultimately balkanize our nation. The
series of threats by APC leaders ahead of the 2015
general election and the announcement by their
National Chairman that they will form a parallel
government should they lose the 2015 presidential
election clearly point to their anti-Nigeria agenda.
With nothing to offer the country as a party conceived
in perfidy and born in opportunism, they strive every
now and then to look for scandals to feast on while
attempting to corrupt all the institutions of
accountability to shield the many maggots that
dominate the ranks of its top chieftains.
It boggles the mind how a party where a kilometer of
road costs N1billion in states under its control by
companies linked to one of its henchmen as against
less than N50m when PDP governors were in charge
looks outside its house for scandals. What can be more
scandalous than 20% of the Internally Generated
Revenue in its richest state going into the pockets of
one of the party owners consistently for over 16 years
now? Yet, the poster boys of greed are today chanting
"change" in our country!
This corrosive outfit has done so much harm to our
polity that words have lost their meanings. For
example calling themselves "progressives" is the
greatest oxymoron in our political lexicon since
amalgamation. Their major criterion for anyone to be a
progressive is having one or two headlines of insults
heaped on the President and PDP officers. As an elder
statesman succinctly puts it, if a group of armed
robbers held a press conference to abuse President
Jonathan, the APC leaders would go and beg them to
become their "navigators".
Indeed, the PDP had looked forward to a robust
opposition that will constructively engage on issue-for -
issue and policy-for-policy debate on nation building
only for the APC to expose its hollowness as an
‘Anarchic Peoples Club’.
We trust that Nigerians are too politically sophisticated
to be hoodwinked into swapping our Transformation
Agenda with supporter of APC politics garnished with
pedestrian rabble-rousing.
When these forged progressives come to town invoking
the imagery of violence, preaching hate and marching
on our fault lines, let the patriotic people of Nigeria
ask: “Progressive’ Politicians, where is your roadmap to
progress?”
Signed:
Olisa Metuh https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=364216857069656

Wasn't expecting any thing good from the supporters of APC. The sad part of the story is jonathan would still win 2015 not because he was flawless, but because APC have failed to show us a better way of doing it. I guess we are stocked with GEJ till 2019 because i don't see my self voting for either Buhari or Atiku.

Obviously Olisah Metu thinks constructive criticism means not talking at all! The moment you see something wrong about the GEJ administration and you dare to say something, OLisa Metu and his likes tag it "unconstructed criticism!!! " Some Olisa Metus will soon tag what I have said as unconstructed!

I'm just wondering if we have a better option to Jonathan, at least for now!

I maybe wrong sha

Orisa meta or Olisa metu, anyonw wey u dey bear, we are tired of PDP, lets try a new political party at the National level. PDP has ruled us since 1999 without any viable acheivment, what we want is change, all we are saying is change!

Oliseh Metuh, that's not for you to decide. Nigerians are going to choose between corruption, darkness, poverty, insecurity, decaying infrastructure, unemployment And CHANGE!

2015 is the pay year!

SAY NO TO CORRUPTION

SAY YES TO BUHARI!

We are tired of PDP!

60% of the pdp we use to know are now in apc.

fagbalex:
Orisa meta or Olisa metu, anyonw wey u dey bear, we are tired of PDP, lets try a new political party at the National level. PDP has ruled us since 1999 without any viable acheivment, what we want is change, all we are saying is change!

APC is not a Nigerian party. Their only interest in Nigeria is boko haram.

So what party are u supporting?

NgeneUkwenu:
We are tired of PDP!

Apc would have been the option, but realized they are nothing but an association of jonathan enemies.

atlwireles:
APC is not a Nigerian party. Their only interest in Nigeria is boko haram.

klodike:
So what party are u supporting?

I am Supporting Change, I am supporting APC!

I am Supporting Buhari!!!

#word#

klodike:
Apc would have been the option, but realized they are nothing but an association of jonathan enemies.

So you expected them to be an association of jonathan's friends like APGA and Labour Parties?

Go to the romance section asap!

Chief metu u get bad mouth o,this people is still battling janja tag here u are hitten below the belt

There has not been ONE press statement in which the
APC had taken up any major policy issue by the PDP
and offered Nigerians how it intends to do it better if it
ever had the chance to govern the country. Statement
after statement, all the APC pours out are bile, hate
insult and low-quality propaganda from the stable of
its Goebbelian ilk and Chemical Ali breed.

Signed:
Olisa Metuh

I wish you goodluck @ that. Buhari is not change to me. Its like taking us back to 1980's

NgeneUkwenu:
I am Supporting Change, I am supporting APC!

I am Supporting Buhari!!!

It boggles the mind how a party where a kilometer of
road costs N1billion in states under its control by
companies linked to one of its henchmen as against
less than N50m when PDP governors were in charge
looks outside its house for scandals. What can be more
scandalous than 20% of the Internally Generated
Revenue in its richest state going into the pockets of
one of the party owners consistently for over 16 years
now? Yet, the poster boys of greed are today chanting
"change" in our country!
Signed:
Olisa Metuh

Civory:
[s]Obviously Olisah Metu thinks constructive criticism means not talking at all! The moment you see something wrong about the GEJ administration and you dare to say something, OLisa Metu and his likes tag it "unconstructed criticism!!! " Some Olisa Metus will soon tag what I have said as unconstructed![/s]

Guy stop that yarn. APC itself lacks the merit for constructive criticism.
A criticism is constructive when it can provide viable and workable process as against what it criticizes. It is not outright condemnation.
I like APC as an opposition party because they are making PDP to sit tight but gradually the "if you can't beat them you join them syndrome" is gradually consuming APC.

Anything founded on hatred would die out. APC i assure you would dissolve after 2015 elections. Perhaps they would become NFA....

NgeneUkwenu:
So you expected them to be an association of jonathan's friends like APGA and Labour Parties?

Go to the romance section asap!

klodike:
Anything founded on hatred would die out. APC i assure you would dissolve after 2015 elections. Perhaps they would become NFA....

You failed to answer my question? Let me repeat it again, Do you want them to be a "powerful and purposeful" opposition like APGA and Labour Parties? Do you even understand what it takes to be an opposition party in tyrannical government like ours? Do you think opposition parties are build to help a clueless government? Why did jonathan stand for an election when he didn't prepare to govern?

Abeg stop boring me with your warped understanding of politics, or unless you are a TANiod!

RockMaxi:
Guy stop that yarn. APC itself lacks the merit for constructive criticism.
A criticism is constructive when it can provide viable and workable process as against what it criticizes. It is not outright condemnation.
I like APC as an opposition party because they are making PDP to sit tight but gradually the "if you can't beat them you join them syndrome" is gradually consuming APC.

You ended up saying nothing!

atlwireles:
APC is not a Nigerian party. Their only interest in Nigeria is boko haram.

^^^PDP alert! Look below

NgeneUkwenu:
Am tired of PDP!

fixed

Even on Nairaland dem plenty. Olisa Metuh never disappoints

APC in desperation mode. Its 15 minutes under the sun is about to expire and its descent into oblivion almost irreversible. Its evil character like smoke can not be hidden anymore. It has exposed itself for what it truly is, an evil cult of lies, bitterness,propaganda and bloodshed that is bound to scatter after its defeat at the polls in 2015.

Civory:
Obviously Olisah Metu thinks constructive criticism means not talking at all! The moment you see something wrong about the GEJ administration and you dare to say something, OLisa Metu and his likes tag it "unconstructed criticism!!! " Some Olisa Metus will soon tag what I have said as unconstructed!

Bros you fall my hand, you didn't read it till the quotes below.

We again admonished the party along the same line after the election of its National Executives on June 14,
2014 to “ensure an issue based opposition that will purposefully and constructively engage and challenge
the PDP with decency and maturity as prescribed by democratic tenets and principles.”
Stating that Nigerians deserve a vibrant and patriotic opposition driven only by the national interest, we
charged the new APC leadership to “put the unity and welfare of Nigerians ahead of other considerations and
jettison all divisive tendencies including unguarded statements that overheat the polity and pitch
Nigerians against one another”.

The watchword is "constructive criticism", you can thank me later.

NgeneUkwenu:
You ended up saying nothing!

The thing pain you?

My dear my president is not CLUELESS just remember that. I don't want an opposition like APC shikenan.

NgeneUkwenu:
You failed to answer my question? Let me repeat it again, Do you want them to be a "powerful and purposeful" opposition like APGA and Labour Parties? Do you even understand what it takes to be an opposition party in tyrannical government like ours? Do you think opposition parties are build to help a clueless government? Why did jonathan stand for an election when he didn't prepare to govern?

Abeg stop boring me with your warped understanding of politics, or unless you are a TANiod!