All eyes are on PDP to lead, I am ready and determined - Uche secondus

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- The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus has taken a swipe at the ruling All Progressives Congress

- The PDP chairman says Nigeria under the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration is going through what it never bargained for

- Secondus charges PDP NASS members to brace for the challenges ahead

Prince Uche Secondus, the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says that Nigeria is going through what it never bargained for under the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration, The Punch reports.

NAIJ.com gathered that Secondus speaking to the party’s caucus at the National Assembly on Tuesday night, February 6, that all hands must be on the deck to save this country from the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.

The PDP chairman in a statement issued by the Media Adviser, Ike Abonyi, in Abuja on Wednesday, February 7, said that he led other members of the National Working Committee of the party to the National Assembly, to rub minds and see how “we can save this country. “

The meeting was attended by all PDP members in the Senate and House of Representatives including the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, the Minority Senate Leader, Godswill Akpabio.

Secondus said: “I have come with members of the NWC of our party to thank you for the mandate you gave us at the successful National Convention last year and to charge you to redouble your efforts for the eventual humiliation of the APC in 2019.

“The National Assembly is the centre of national politics, Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gun powder waiting to explode, only the PDP can save it.”

Secondus further said that Nigerians had seen what they never bargained for in the last 32 months of the APC administration, adding that: “people are being killed on a daily basis, nuclear nepotism is in vogue, you have to come from Daura to be appointed into a federal position.

“This is the time for all to stand up to save this country and all eyes are on the PDP to lead the way, I am ready and determined even to be arrested for us to regain our liberty in this land.

“What we have ruling Nigeria today at the Villa is a broken party and a broken government, spiritually the APC has already left the Villa, what we must fine tune is the physical accomplishment.”

He charged PDP NASS members to brace for the challenges ahead since they were the leaders of the party at the grassroots.

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According to an earlier report by NAIJ.com, the Peoples Democratic Party accused the ruling All Progressives Congress of paying lip service to the calls of Nigerians for restructuring.

The party's national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, made the statement on Tuesday, February 6, when he featured as a guest on a breakfast show on Channels Television.

His words: “We believe that the APC is merely paying a lip service to the issues they have brought out on true federalism and other issues bordering on restructuring of the nation."

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