PDP alleges Tinubu’s administration stealing public funds, afraid of defeat in 2027

The Peoples Democratic Party rose from its national working committee meeting on Tuesday to accuse the President Bola Tinubu-led government of diverting public funds and intimidating the opposition due to fear of defeat in the coming 2027 election.

In his statement read after the meeting, PDP’s acting national chairperson Amb. Iliya Damagum, lamented what he called the “sorry” and “melancholic state of affairs” in the country.

The PDP also bewailed the growing insecurity and economic hardship in the country, accusing President Tinubu of “negligence and abdication of his Constitutional duty to ensure the safety and security of the nation and her citizens.”

The opposition party faulted the incumbent government’s economic policies, saying it caused the “ collapse of the productive sector, closure of millions of businesses, massive loss of jobs, rise in criminality and general sense of misery.”

As a way forward, the PDP asked President Tinubu-led administration to “rescind all its anti-people policies and take practical steps to address the insecurity and economic recession in the country.”

In addition, the PDP said: “NEC stands in firm resistance to the sinister plot by the Tinubu-led APC to turn Nigeria into a one-Party totalitarian state as evidenced in the desperate attempts to stifle and annihilate opposition parties through open siege, threats and intimidation of opposition figures and institutions of democracy in Nigeria.

“It is clear that this plot is borne out of APC’s mortal fear of inevitable defeat in 2027 due to its dismal failure in government.”