The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo has taken a swipe at the All Progressives Congress (APC), saying Nigerians ‘tricked’ into voting for the ruling party are now regretting and lamenting their action.
Kennedy Peretei, the spokesperson for the main opposition PDP stated this in a release issued to reporters on Tuesday in Akure in reaction to an earlier statement by the chairman of the APC in the state, Ade Adetimehin.
Mr Adetimehin had, on Monday, attacked the PDP in the state, saying the main opposition party has “gone into extinction” following the defection of its members to the governing APC.
But in his reply, Mr Peretei explained that the people are already holding the APC responsible for the suffering and agony they are passing through with the removal of the fuel subsidy and its biting effect on the nation’s economy.
Mr Peretei added that, “Such a man, if he has any sense of shame and responsibility, should have been on his knees begging the people for the huge misfortune masterminded by his party.
To now open his mouth in a most careless manner to say “PDP is now extinct” is not only laughable but mischief of the highest order.”
He noted that those leaving the PDP for the APC and being celebrated by Mr Adetimehin are the members who had been docile in the last two cycles of elections in the state.
While explaining that a few members of the opposition party had left its fold since 2016, Mr Peretei said the PDP remained vibrant in the state and had not gone into extinction.
Mr Peretei said the PDP in the state is unruffled by a few persons who are in “a self-destruct misadventure of Adetimehin’s sinking APC ship” in the state.
