The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has tasked Nigerian workers to resist all anti-people tendencies that seek to compromise and undermine the democratic tenets of freedom, Rule of Law, accountability and probity in the country.
This was contained in statement by the National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Hon. Debo Ologunagba. He said this, while congratulating the Nigerian workers on this year’s International Workers’ Day celebration.
Ologunagba, however, used the occasion to hail the Nigerian workers for remaining steadfast and resilient in the face of harsh economic realities. He described the workers as real the drivers of the national economy despite the asphyxiating and life-discounting conditions. He pointed to that conditions were occasioned by the ill-implemented economic and fiscal policies of the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration.
Ologunagba said “Our Party is deeply distraught that Nigerian workers and indeed millions of other citizens have, in the last nine years been subjected to misery, harrowing economic hardship and worsening insecurity by the rudderless and insensitive APC administrations, which have wrecked the nation’s productive sectors and brought distress to our national life.”
The statement read in part, “PDP, particularly, condemned the continuing increase in electricity tariff and price of petroleum products. With petrol now selling at over N1000 per liter in various parts of the country. A situation that has resulted in astronomical increase in the cost of living that have worsened the economic hardship in the country.
“As the Party of the people, the PDP demands that the APC-led Federal Government ends its insensitivity towards Nigerians. To use the occasion of the Workers’ Day to review all its retrogressive policies. And to take urgent action towards addressing issues that have direct bearing to the welfare of the citizens.”
“The PDP, however, urged Nigerian workers and indeed all citizens not to give up hope. But to remain steadfast in their commitment towards a stable, united and prosperous nation, especially at this challenging time.
source: Leadership
