By Lateef Ibrahim
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, has urged Nigerians to unite across political, ethnic, and religious lines to rescue the nation from what he described as the failed leadership of the All Progressives Congress, (APC).
Olawepo-Hashim, in a statement yesterday, accused the APC of wrecking the economy and deepening national divisions.
He said the APC-led administration had plunged Nigeria into unprecedented debt, worsened poverty, and presided over rising insecurity that has left the nation “bleeding profusely.”
According to him, the ruling party’s policies had led to economic contraction, widespread hardship, and a steep decline in Nigeria’s global standing.
“Nigerians must unite to defeat the evil that the APC has come to represent, regardless of party affiliations, ethnic differences, or religion.
“The mindless policies of increased poverty, high inflation, and economic decline are ravaging all Nigerians equally, without asking whether you are Christian, Muslim, or animist,” he declared.
Olawepo-Hashim added that the APC’s decade in power had wrecked the national economy, claiming that Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, fell from $574 billion in 2014 to less than $259 billion.
“The APC’s ten years of consistently wrong policies have wrecked our national economy. They contracted our GDP from $574 billion in 2014 to less than $259 billion today, a disaster unparalleled in our economic history,” he stated.
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