The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the outcome of the presidential election in Ghana is a signal that the days of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the ruling party in Nigeria is numbered.
On Monday evening, the electoral commission of Ghana declared John Mahama, the candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as the winner of the presidential election held on Saturday.
Mahama defeated Mahamudu Bawumia, Ghana’s vice-president and candidate of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Previously president between 2012 and 2017, Mahama garnered 6.3 million votes—56.5 percent of votes cast.
In a statement, Debo Ologunagba, PDP spokesperson, said NDC’s victory is a “clear demonstration of the triumph of the power of the people over misrule and oppressive policies of government as now being witnessed in Nigeria under the All Progressives Congress (APC).”.
“The verdict of the people of Ghana in this presidential election is a signal to the APC that its days in office are numbered, as the power of the people in Nigeria, just like in Ghana, will surely prevail, end the APC’s oppressive rule, and return Nigeria to the path of good governance, security, political stability, and economic prosperity on the platform of the PDP in 2027,” the statement reads.
Ologunagba alleged that the economic policies of the APC government have sent many Nigerians into poverty.
“Also unacceptable to Nigerians is that our once-thriving nation, which ranked as a preferred destination for international foreign investment capital and one of the world’s fastest-growing economies under the PDP, has been brought to its knees by the APC with decayed infrastructure, a comatose economy, worsening insecurity, and social uncertainties occasioned by ill-conceived and ill-implemented macroeconomic policies,” the PDP spokesperson said.
“More distressing is that while Nigerians are subjected to harrowing hardship, APC leaders remain unconcerned and unaccountable, imposing harsh taxes and recklessly looting the nation’s treasury to finance their luxury appetites and consumption while arrogantly treating Nigerians as though they are a conquered people.
“Major multinationals are now leaving our country in droves, and life has become so unbearable that our citizens, particularly the youths, are now resorting to suicide or slavery missions abroad as an alternative because of the monumental misrule and insensitivity of the APC.”
Ologunagba added that Nigerians are “earnestly” seeking a return of the “golden years of the PDP in government as their only hope for survival and triumph of their dreams, aspiration, and collective will as a people”.
