The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday said it has learned its lessons, saying it would make amends if given the chance to lead the country this time.
Nigeria’s Presidential election will hold on February 25, 2023.
Agape Kramer, PDP’s Head of Department, Foreign Chapter, disclosed this during a United Nations roundtable event with leaders of political parties to discuss the future of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Nigeria, on Thursday in Abuja.
While highlighting the circumstances that led to the PDP losing power at the centre to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2015, she said “we have checked where we have failed and we are ready to make amends now.”
Kramer argued that Abubakar Atiku, the Presidential Candidate of the party, is the right man to address all the anomalies of the current government.
Kramer berated the APC for weaponising poverty, stressing that Nigerians were poorer now than they were when the ruling party took over the government in 2015.
She said the party’s manifesto had captured all the key SDGs, adding that top on the agenda of the Party is poverty eradication, security, solving the issues of youth and women as well as energy and climate change.
Meanwhile, the Africa Action Congress (AAC), has blamed successive governments for the high level of corruption in the country, which it said is the greatest problem confronting Nigeria.
Represented at the meeting by Ina Okopi-Agu, the National Secretary of the party, the ADC vowed to reverse the privatisation programme championed by the PDP when Atiku was the Vice President.
Okopi-Agu said if ADC wins the presidential election it would probe the privatisation programme.
He also said the Party would pay university students N100,000 yearly while making education to the secondary school level free and compulsory.
Speaking earlier, Mathias Schmale, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, lamented that Nigeria was lagging behind in achieving most of the SDGs.
He said it was pertinent that political parties came forward with their plans in driving the key SDGs, adding that the UN wanted to encourage inclusiveness at all levels of society.
The APC is the only frontline party not present at the meeting.
