•Urges NASS to review 2024 budget
By Lateef Ibrahim, Abuja
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has charged Nigerians to brace up to use every legitimate means to resist all fascist tendencies and defend the nation’s Constitutional Democracy from totalitarianism in this new year.
The party , which gave the charge on Sunday in its New Year message to Nigerians, pointed out that the new year offers them (Nigerians) the opportunity to re-invent and assert themselves as a free people under Democratic Order.
In the message signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Hon Debo Ologunagba, the party also described the New Year as a great opportunity to set aside every ethnic, religious and political partitioning and join their voices with the PDP in resisting anti-democratic forces seeking to undermine the Constitution and the Laws, emasculate Institutions of Democracy and foist a fascist
Nigerians and indeed the Civil Society, the PPD maintained, must speak out against the recklessness and lack of transparency of the All Progressives Congress, APC, administration that led to the collapse of the Naira; the alleged massive looting of funds including proceeds from the removal of subsidy on petroleum products; the skewing of the 2024 budget in favour of luxury appetite of the Presidency and APC leaders without concrete policies and programmes to revive the economy, create jobs and address the comatose manufacturing and productive sectors.
The PDP further called on the International Community to assist in the sustenance and support for Democracy in Nigeria given the huge humanitarian crisis with potential negative consequences on the stability of West Africa, Africa and indeed the world, should Democracy fail in Nigeria.
The Party therefore tasked the National Assembly to be on the side of the people by immediately reviewing and adjusting the 2024 budget by cutting all provisions for luxury items and channeling such funds to sectors that have direct bearing on the wellbeing of Nigerians.
The Party equally charged leaders at all levels to use the new year to re-double their efforts in serving and seeking the good of the citizens.
The statement by the PDP reads, “The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) congratulates Nigerians on the dawn of the New Year, 2024, charging them to pray for the nation and brace up to use every legitimate means to resist all fascist tendencies and defend the nation’s Constitutional Democracy from totalitarianism.
“The new year offers Nigerians the opportunity to re-invent and assert themselves as a free people under Democratic Order; set aside every ethnic, religious and political partitioning and join their voices with the PDP in resisting anti-democratic forces seeking to undermine the Constitution and the Laws, emasculate Institutions of Democracy and foist a fascist regime on our nation.
“Our citizens must say NO to anti-democratic actions and policies of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration, which are so far tilted towards the institutionalization of corruption, crippling of Democracy Institutions and sabotaging of national productivity which the PDP had earlier alerted is consistent with APC’s scheme to weaponize poverty and suppress Nigerians to surrender to totalitarianism.
