The PDP also said that the rejection, which occurred after the party had been in power for 16 years, came as a surprise.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that only Nigerians can explain why they rejected it at the 2015 elections.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh
The PDP also said that the rejection, which occurred after the party had been in power for 16 years, came as a surprise.
The comments were made by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, during a press briefing to commemorate the PDP’s 17th anniversary in Abuja on Monday, August 31, 2015.
He said:
“Only
the electorate can say why we were rejected. We must have made our
mistakes and some of the issues that affected the election had to do
with the people.”
“We believe that we did
our best for the Nigerian people and we got the largest number of
people from the diaspora to start business here. In those 16 years, we
did our best. We created a system where merits were recognised.”
“We
created a lot of super rich Nigerians like Dangote, Oando and other
companies. Nigerian companies now compete with foreign companies in the
oil and gas sector.”
He also rejected the corruption label which has been attached to the party in recent times.