PDP HAS FAILED THE NATION - ANPP WOMEN LEADER
By Tunde Sanni, Lokoja

November 11, 2003 – (This Day - Lagos) The National Women Leader of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) Hajia Muinat Obalowu has scored the ruling Peoples Democratic party (PDP) low in performance, declaring that the party has failed the nation.

Obalowu in a chat with THIS DAY in Lokoja stated that the economy of the nation fared better under the late General Sani Abacha regime than under the present PDP controlled Federal Government.

"The rate of poverty has continued to expand while only few Nigerians could afford three square meals.

"In many federal establishments, salaries are being owed in arrears while parastatals are being starved of funds and subvention. It is disappointing," the ANPP leader surmised.

Continuing her assessment, she remarked, "the position of our party that PDP cannot be good managers of our resources and abundant potentials for economic growth and viability have been vindicated."

She however excused the absence of strong partisan opposition views on the mismanagement of the economy to the deliberate act of the ruling party to cripple all viable opposition parties.

"In the South West, AD was turned into an orphan while ANPP with all its promises was made to become feeble. Their objective is to ensure that if they must wreck the country, all notable and formidable oppositions should be inflicted with political haemorrhage."

The ANPP women leader promised that has party will soon rediscover itself to provide a formidable opposition to put the ruling PDP in check.
She attributed the silence of the party to the ongoing litigation against the election of President Olusegun Obasanjo and also to the general disenchantment in the country on the state of the nation.

"We are trying to guide ourselves and since our election petition is now at the apex court, we are waiting to see where judgment will go so that when we speak, we don't run foul of the judiciary.

Obalowu dismissed media reports of the likelihood of any repositioning in the party.

"The repositioning thing is a media creation and deliberately sponsored by our main opposition, the PDP to destabilise our party," she stated.

From: http://allafrica.com/stories/200311111010.html