The spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday said
the party deserves to be congratulated for having the confidence to
apologise to Nigerians.
The Party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said
this in an interview on Channels Television Programme, Politics Today.
He was reacting to the apology made by the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Uche Secondus, to Nigerians for what he described as mistakes the party made while in power.
Reacting to question on if the PDP was truly remorseful and if the
party deserves Nigerians’ trust to be re-elected into power,
Ologbondiyan said PDP should rather be congratulated for owning up to
its past mistakes.
“I expected you to congratulate the Peoples Democratic Party for
having the courage to confront Nigerians and apologise. We have not only
apologised as a party, we are very remorseful,” he said.
Ologbondiyan also explained further why the party apologised to Nigerians over past mistakes.
According to him, the party was apologising because it allowed the nation to slip into a ‘pathetic situation.’
“Our apology has to do with the fact that we allowed a movement that
has no structure to take over the governance of this nation and push
Nigerians to a situation of hunger and starvation and to a pathetic
situation, so much that the world is contemplating how they can help us.
“That is the essence of our apology,” he said.
Ologbondiyan also boasted that the party had turned a new leaf and
learnt from its past mistakes, thereby seeking Nigerians’ trust to
return to power.
He said, “The PDP is the most mature and experienced party. We have
seen it all, we have made mistakes in the past but we have come anew.
Our party has started a new life.”