Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rep. Ndudi Elumelu has said that Nigerians are anxiously waiting for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to return to power in 2023.
Speaking at the inauguration of the Convention Planning Committee of the party at its national Secretariat, Elumelu said only the return of the PDP to power in 2023 will guarantee peace and unity in the country.
He said the expectations of Nigerians on the party places a burden on it to put its house in order and resolve all contending issues at a successful national convention.
He said with the inauguration of the 2021 National Convention Organizing Committee (NCOC), the PDP has taken a major step towards the task of galvanizing the party and Nigerians in general for the task ahead.
He said the exercise: “marks the beginning of a strategic repositioning in our determined march with Nigerians to rescue and take back our dear nation from the stranglehold and misrule of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government.
“Indeed, Nigerians are reassured and inspired by the unity and oneness of purpose prevalent in our party today. Their utmost solidarity resides with the PDP in their determination to oust the APC-led government and we must not let them down.
“This is because their only hope of returning to a life of peace, security, national cohesion and economic prosperity is in returning the PDP to power come 2023.
“It is indeed pathetic that under the APC led government, all the productive sectors of our country have been crippled. Infrastructural decay and skyrocketed costs of food and essential commodities have made life unbearable in Nigeria. The only hope is returning the PDP to power in 2023 and we must not fail our compatriots.
“It is against this backdrop that we must go into the National Convention with every sense of unity, duty and patriotism to elect competent, dedicated and experienced leaders to lead our party and Nigerians to victory in the 2023 general elections.
“Our party members and Nigerians in general expect the highest display of sportsmanship by aspirants to various positions so that we can have a smooth, successful, credible and people-oriented national convention. In all, the interest and wellbeing of Nigerians must be paramount.
“I am enthusiastic that at the end of the Convention, it would be clear that our party is indeed marching forward to rescuing our nation from the misrule of the APC led government so as to give our compatriots the government they have missed and now earnestly yearn for.
“One of the fundamentals in this task is the electoral law. Our caucus in the House of Representatives is working hard in this direction. We expect that the National Assembly will do the needful to ensure that whatever outcome from the conference committee will be for the benefit of all Nigerians,” Minority Leader said.
