Hiring Of Foreign Consultant For 2015: APC Full Of Contempt For Nigerians – PDP

APC-PDPThe Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has expressed shock and disappointment over reports that the All Progressives Congress has hired a foreign firm, AKPD Message and Media, to boost its electoral chances in the 2015 general elections.

The ruling party called on Nigerians to resist this, which it said was an attempt by the opposition party to draw the back to the era of imperialism, 54 years after independence.

APC Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed had on Tuesday issued a statement announcing that the party has engaged the services of the consultant, which had worked for the election of US President Barak Obama as well as worked for the success of other presidential candidates in Kenya and Ghana among others.

But a statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, said this was not only a clear justification of its oft-repeated stand that the APC was anti-Nigeria and that the action was another insult on the hard working citizens of our dear country.

Metuh said, “In engaging the services of a foreign firm, the APC has shown that it does not have faith in our people, our indigenous consultancy firms and the teeming well qualified, world acclaimed Nigerian professionals and technocrats.

“Just as the leopard cannot change its spots, so also is the APC unable to hide its true colour as an anti-people organisation tied to the apron string of foreign interests; in utter disdain for fellow Nigerians and the age long clamour for local content”.

Metuh alleged that the APC has an inner contempt for Nigerians, adding that its latest action was not only an affront to nationalism but a weird embrace of neo-colonialism at a time national pride and assertiveness have assumed a preeminent place in global politics.

He said, “We are afraid that neo-colonialism is the guiding ethos of the APC’s quest to rule Nigeria. It is now apparent that the leadership of this opposition party may have perfected plans to use same foreign interests to siphon national resources and reverse the pro-national socio-economic foundation laid by the founding fathers of Nigeria”.

According to the PDP spokesperson, there was no way the APC could justify its action, which he termed as a crime against the Nigerian people.

He said, “Nigerians are discerning enough to see the clever attempt to cover this monumental insult by dropping the name of President Obama, who was duly re-elected by the popular votes of the people of the United States as a beneficiary of this consultancy service.

“This ulterior motive of the APC explains the reason it has mindlessly been opposing and attacking all the people oriented projects and policies of the PDP-led Federal Government which have enthroned an unprecedented empowerment of indigenous firms, an economic agenda strongly embedded in the manifesto of our great party, seeking the transfer wealth from public institutions to the private sector”.

Metuh added in the statement that unlike the APC whose ideological thrust he said was to relegate Nigerians and their indigenous firms to the background, the ruling PDP believes in Nigerians and will continue to work with them and to create the enabling environment for hardworking private individuals and indigenous firms to thrive in all fields of endeavor including media, manufacturing, trade, commerce and other critical sectors of the economy.

“This explains why companies like Intel Services, Globacom, AIT, Dangote, Oando, UBA and a host of other ingenious firms have continued to excel and compete favourably with their peers all over the world, a trend the APC wants to scuttle”, he added.

Metuh, therefore, enjoined Nigerians to continue to note the unpatriotic and anti-people actions of the APC even as it called on all well-meaning Nigerians to rise up and resist the APC adding that “a party which has clearly shown that it has no regard for the talents of the people it seeks to govern can never win the trust of Nigerians”.

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  2. Metuh or what do u called yourself.I wonder why you think you are speaking for masses.you speak as a voice of common nigerian but you are part of corrupt citizens of this nations.I don’t what is your personal problem with APc engaging foreign consultant .if you arr not comfortable kindly employ consultant from canada for PDP.is it not corrupt citizen like you that are in nigerIa firm.speaking as if you are also of good intension for this country nigeria.I beg go and sit down

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