Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria, Osita Okechukwu, has said Nigerians will be making a grave error by returning the opposition Peoples Democratic Party back to power in 2023.
He explained that the PDP cannot be trusted to rescue Nigeria because promoters of the party have an incurable appetite for corruption and a history of mismanaging the economy.
Okechukwu said this in an interview in Abuja, on Sunday.
He was reacting to a rescue plan the PDP said it was putting in place in order to rid Nigeria of the socio-economic woes which it said the All Progressive Congress regime; has plunged the nation into.
He said, “How can Nigerians trust our sister political party, the PDP, given their antecedents riddled with trust deficit? We know that times are hard; I think it is better to allow APC to fix Nigeria. Where does one start from?”
The VON DG who is an Enugu State chieftain of the APC, noted that Nigeria was yet to fully recover from the assault on its economy by the recklessness and corruption which characterized the 16 years the PDP spent in office.
Okechukwu further noted that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission was still probing the allegation of a multi-million Naira fraud leveled against the suspended National Chairman of the PDP, Uche Secondus, by a party member, Kassim Afegbua.
He also pointed out that Nigerians cannot forget in a hurry the various financial scandals ranging from the “Halliburton scam to the Dasuki gate scandal. Okechukwu also asked, “can we forget the squandermania of $23 billion Greenfield Refineries – one meant for Lagos, one for Kogi and one for Bayelsa? A golden opportunity cost our economy.