Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will bounce back to give Nigerians a responsive government.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Atiku, who is one of the founding fathers of the PDP, made the statement in a statement by his Media Office in Abuja on Friday.
He said the PDP is the progenitor of Nigeria’s contemporary democracy and will ensure that democracy not only survives in the country, but also thrives.
Abubakar said the PDP offered quality leadership through various administrations in the 16 years it was at the helm of affairs in Nigeria. He said the achievements recorded in those 16 years have remained the benchmark for positive growth in the country’s economy and other critical areas of national life.
He also said the PDP played a leading role in the deconstruction of military rule in Nigeria, and that the party is now poised to rise to the occasion and cancel the economic hardship and other structural deficiencies that have negatively affected Nigerians in the past eight and a half years.
The statement reads:
“PDP is the progenitor of our contemporary democracy and shall ensure that democracy did not only survive in Nigeria, but that the country thrives through it.
“Being one of the founding fathers of our great party, the PDP, I take great pride in having participated in the process of nurturing the party from infancy to a deliberate agency of socio-political and economic development in Nigeria.
“In the 16 years that the PDP was at the helm of affairs in our country, the party offered quality leadership through various administrations and the achievements recorded in those 16 years have remained the benchmark for positive growth in our economy and other critical areas of our national life.
“Of course, the PDP took leading role in the deconstruction of military rule in Nigeria, and the peculiarities of our contemporary experiences both within Nigeria and other countries in Africa demand that the PDP should once again, rise to the occasion in cancelling the economic hardship and other structural deficiencies that directly bear negatively on our people in the past nearly eight and half years,” Atiku stated.
The former VP added: “I have every confidence that the PDP will bounce back to give Nigerians a responsive government.”
