Large crowd of the All Progressive Congress (APC) supporters trooped out in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, on Wednesday, to receive a presidential aspirant of the party, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd).
Party enthusiasts and other residents of the state crowded the secretariat of APC at Erepa Street in Yenagoa, to catch a glimpse of the former head of state whose slogan is “zero tolerance to corruption.”
Buhari who was in the state to address the delegates of the party for the APC’s forthcoming presidential primaries, was received by the state Chairman of APC, Tiwe Oruminighe and members of the state working committee.
Addressing the delegates, Buhari lamented the deep-rooted corruption in Nigeria, blaming it on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He said the PDP had brought nothing but untold hardship to Nigerians, adding that another four years of the PDP would further plunge the country into misery.
He asked the people to compare 1999 when the PDP took over the reins of power with the present realities, observing that everything had gone from bad to worse.
According to him Nigerians should either make a wise choice in the next election by voting the APC or remain in perpetual suffering.
“If you want to know how much we have been suffering under the PDP since 1999, try and imagine what our condition was in 1999.
“We used to have Nigerian airways, we used to have Nigerian shipping lines, the roads were not too bad, even light itself was not too bad,” he said.
He said under the watch of PDP, many industries had closed shops, leading to backwardness in industrialization, noting that the ruling party had shown total disrespect to democratic institutions and lack of political will to stop corruption.
“What is wrong? What is wrong is massive corruption. If we don’t kill corruption in Nigeria, corruption will kill us,” he said, adding that corruption had made it impossible for the country to develop its potential.
He recalled that under PDP many panels of inquiries were set up and people were indicted for corrupt practices in the petroleum and other sectors.
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