The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has identified deliberate policies that
will guarantee single-digit commercial lending rate across all
productive sectors, as one of its economic blueprint, immediately it is
re-elected into office in 2019......
The main
opposition party has also asked the National Chairman of APC, Adams
Oshiomhole, to stop thinking that his party can win elections in Taraba
and Delta States in 2019
In what
seemed like a policy agenda for the 2019 electioneering campaign, the
PDP said its economic blueprint would make a turnaround of the
prevailing double digit being operated by the APC-controlled government.
In a
statement issued yesterday by the party’s National Publicity Secretary,
Kola Ologbondiyan, the party also said it plans to push policies that
engender increased local content in all critical sectors.
The
statement quoted the party’s spokesman as having stated this when a
delegation from a coalition of small and medium enterprise owners paid
him a visit in his office in Abuja.
Ologbondiyan
said the initiative was targeted at providing the much needed
interventions in key sectors, including power, agriculture,
manufacturing, construction, real estate, transport, solid mineral
mining, oil and gas, education, retailing, among others, without which
the economy cannot rebound.
According to
Ologbondiyan, “ there is no way economic activities can rebound unless
we put our people back to work. Over 20 million Nigerians have been put
out of work by the APC and many more are underemployed. Families are
under stress and citizens have been subjected to abject poverty by the
Buhari’s administration.
“Our
recovery plan involves a concerted effort to reopen the market and
encourage economic environment that will grant our investors and
entrepreneurs affordable credit facilities to favorably compete and
thrive,” he said.
He said the
blueprint includes the formulation and implementation of policies that
will guarantee single digit commercial lending rates as well as
increased local content in all critical sectors.
“This will
involve an immediate review of all tight monetary policies of the APC,
including obnoxious foreign exchange and import regulations, multiple
taxation, exorbitant tariffs on essential services, particularly in
power and communication, as well as other unnecessary economic
bottlenecks that are currently stifling small scale entrepreneurship,
industrial activities and general economic growth.
“Unlike the
APC’s exclusionist style, the PDP will run an all-inclusive economic
system that guarantees an open market operation and return a
people-focused pricing regime. This was part of the policy thrust with
which the PDP grew our economy to become one of the fastest growing in
the world before the unfortunate incursion of the APC.
“Come 2019, the PDP will revamp our economy and put our citizens back to the path of prosperity”, he said.
In his speech, the leader of the delegation, Tosin Olaoye, commended the PDP for its rebuilding effort, adding that Nigerians are eager for the return of the party to governance in 2019.
He said
Nigeria as a country fared better under the PDP due to its economic
initiatives and people-oriented policies, all of which, he emphasized, are lacking under the APC.
Olaoye said
the APC has shown that it has no capacity and competence to run an
economy as resilient as Nigerian but thrives on false promises, deceit
and propaganda, which has brought the country to its knees in the last
three years.
Meanwhile, the PDP has asked Oshiomhole, to stop thinking that APC can win elections in Taraba and Delta States in 2019.
The party
said Oshiomhole should concentrate his energies on saving his APC from
imminent collapse rather than attempting to bully and override the
people of the two states, ahead of 2019 elections.
In a
statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP
said it was an assault on the sensibilities of the people of the two
states for Oshiomhole to think that they will vote for the same APC,
which has failed to protect their lives
“Perhaps
Oshiomhole mistook Delta and Taraba states 2019 elections for the APC
2018 National Convention where President Buhari bullied and intimidated
delegates to foist him as National Chairman, without proper election,”
PDP said.
PDP said
Nigerians knew that the two states are major strongholds of the PDP for
which the party clearly won the 2015 governorship and presidential
elections.
According to
the statement, PDP, in 2015, enjoyed overwhelming follower ship, which
has now tripled in the last three years, signposting the party’s
inevitable victory in 2019, particularly due to the sterling performance
of Governors Ifeanyi Okowa and Darius Ishaku in delivering good
governance and development to the people.
“We are,
however, not unaware of Oshiomhole’s pattern of deploying false
assertions, propaganda and instigating confusion, but we assure him that
such cannot work in Delta and Taraba states, no matter the machination,
as the people are solidly behind the PDP in our quest with majority of
Nigerians to rescue our nation from the clutches of the APC,” PDP said.
“Instead of
wasting his time fixating on PDP states, we advice Oshiomhole to direct
his energy on how to save his crumbling party from the misfortune of
being stuck with an unpopular candidate in President Buhari, who has become the fixed omen of inescapable electoral humiliation of the APC in 2019.
“Even Oshiomhole, who by now ought to have surrendered himself to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over allegations of
humongous corruption and stealing of public funds hanging on his neck,
knows that he is a derelict salesman of a very bad product, but had to
believably take up the job to save himself from prosecution,” PDP added.
The PDP
asked the APC to perish the thoughts of muzzling the electoral process
at any level in 2019, as such will be stiffly resisted by Nigerians.
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