A socio-political group, The Democratic Front, has stated that the Peoples Democratic Party cannot advise President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
TDF insisted that the party should rather bury its head in shame after throwing the country into the current “parlous economic state.”
The group, in a statement jointly signed by its Chairman, Danjuma Mohammed, and Secretary Wale Adedayo, was reacting to the communique issued by the PDP at the end of its National Executive Committee meeting.
It argued that the country has still not recovered from the mindless plundering of the economy in the PDP years, according to Daily Post.
“Imagine a political party that failed woefully and landed the country in its present parlous economic state now pontificating on efforts to revitalize the national economy as if they ever had any clue.
“Rather than bury their heads in shame because of the roles the former ruling party played in bringing the country to its knees, they are busy pontificating on the bold initiatives and reforms being initiated by President Bola Tinubu,” the group said.
The group noted that if the party’s NEC had limited itself to its desperate but unrealistic bid to unify the dilapidating structures of a deeply divided political party, which the PDP has become, that communique would have attracted better attention.
It pointed out that the absurdity and the manner the NEC members exhibited pretentious insensitivity to the tragic consequences of their party’s 16 years of misrule resonated with the role the PDP played to hinder the growth and development of the Nigerian state.
The group was of the opinion that a political party which plundered Nigeria’s hard-earned resources and brutally squandered its national patrimony for those lengthy years was expected to display remorse and responsibility on matters of economic revitalization and statecraft.
It added: “This litany of PDP’s failures and unprecedented maladministration will remain evergreen in our collective memory as a people.
“So it is egregiously ridiculous that PDP NEC members will cast aspersions on President Bola Tinubu’s highly performing economic team and ask him to reverse his impressively successful economic policies.”
