Stop whining, accept your fate as opposition, APC tells PDP

The APC in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday by its national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the fact that the PDP spent time complaining about alleged harassment and intimidation by the APC, when it should be strategising about the task ahead of it, shows the PDP does not understand the challenges awaiting it as an opposition party.
‘’We don’t blame them as they have neither the capacity nor the commitment to be in opposition. A party that stood for nothing but looting and rent collection will naturally be afraid of being in opposition, where there is nothing to loot or rent to collect.’’
The party advised the PDP to understand that it is not by repeating lies that an opposition party can be effective, saying it is by being creative and credible.
APC said opposition is not by cheap blackmail, but by being resilient.
“This is why we wish to extend to the  National Working Committee of the PDP a free orientation, just as we have offered the party’s spokesman a free crash course on how to be an opposition party spokesman. The theme of the orientation for the PDP NWC members will be ‘transiting from the ruling party to an opposition party’.
“In the first instance, there is no substitute for experience. Also, we believe that democracy will be deepened only when there is cooperation between the governing party and the opposition, hence the offer,’’ the party said.
APC also described as laughable the allegation by the PDP that the APC is trying to turn the country into a one-party state by making irresistible offers to the leadership of the PDP.