Resist anti-people tendencies, PDP charges workers

From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged workers to resist all anti-people tendencies that seek to compromise and undermine the democratic tenets in the country.

The PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, yesterday, lauded workers in the country for their steadfastness.

The opposition party noted that the workers, as the “real drivers” of the country’s economy have remained steadfast “despite the asphyxiating and life-discounting conditions occasioned by the ill-implemented economic and fiscal policies of the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration.”

It implored Nigerians not to lose hope over the situation in the country, but remind committed towards  the pursuit of a stable, united and prosperous nation, especially at this challenging time.

‘Our Party is deeply distraught that Nigerian workers and indeed millions of other citizens have, in the last nine years been subjected to misery, harrowing economic hardship and worsening insecurity by the rudderless and insensitive APC administrations, which have wrecked the nation’s productive sectors and brought distress to our national life. The PDP particularly condemns the continuing increase in electricity tariff and price of petroleum products with petrol now selling at over N1000 per liter in various parts of the country; a situation that has resulted in astronomical increase in the cost of living and worsened the economic hardship in the country.

“As the Party of the people, the PDP demands that the APC-led Federal Government ends its insensitivity towards Nigerians and use the occasion of the Workers’ Day to review all its retrogressive policies and take urgent action towards addressing issues that have direct bearing to the welfare of the citizens, “ the statement read in part.