PDP TRULY EMBARRASSED NIGERIA. ONANUGA JEERS AT AYU

The recent blunder made by the national chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, was a real reflection of what he has in mind, according to Bayo Onanuga, the campaign’s director of media and publicity for the Tinubu-Shettima presidential campaign.

Ayu, a former professor and president of the Senate, misspoke during a speech Thursday at the PDP rally in Kano when he said, “PDP has brought us dishonor and we will not maintain them in power.”

He instantly rectified himself, but the remark quickly gained popularity and became a hot topic on numerous websites and social media networks.

In response to the slip-up, Onanuga said that Ayu’s error wasn’t just a slip-up, but rather a genuine position of what he has in mind.

He claims that over the course of its rule in the previous 16 years, the opposition PDP has let Nigerians down and brought shame upon itself.
“The unraveling of the immoral Peoples Democratic Party reached extreme ridiculousness yesterday,” he added. “Its National Chairman, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, acknowledged that the party brought shame to Nigeria while campaigning in Kano. Ayu’s assessment of his own party should not be interpreted as a simple verbal error.

It was a genuine expression of the former senate president’s inner thoughts and a self-admittance of the party’s gross shortcomings during its 16 years in power. Ayu’s widely circulated comment, “PDP has caused us humiliation and we will not retain them in power,” is in line with the prevailing consensus that the party failed the nation and its citizens and should never be given the opportunity to rule again.

The Ajaokuta Steel Complex served as a recent example of the umbrella party’s failure. Atiku Abubakar, the party’s nominee for president, oversaw the privatization initiative during the Obasanjo administration and gave Global Steel a concession in 2004 to acquire the business. When it was discovered that the concession was a shambles, another PDP government terminated it. Even though the Nigerian government had not fulfilled the terms of the concession by turning Ajaokuta into a reality, Global Steel sued it in court and claimed $7 billion in damages.