Why We Lost 2015 Presidential Election To APC – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it lost the 2015 presidential election to propaganda and lies sold to unsuspecting Nigerians by the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The main opposition party was reacting to a statement by President Muhammadu BuhariPresident Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday.

Buhari had in a message to APC members called for steadfastness in the party, while asking members to look at the once-powerful, ‘’main opposition Peoples Democratic Party now enfeebled and adrift and learn lessons in disunity, mismanagement and corruption.”

He warned, “They (the PDP) failed in 16 years in power and a failure as opposition. Yes, we are entitled to our own share of dissent and intra-party discord. These are common in all parties, left and right all over the world.”

Speaking to The PUNCH, National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Debo Ologunagba described the ruling party as harbinger of bad omen to the country.

He said the lies told the nation during the electioneering had exposed the incapability of the APC to rule the nation.

According to Ologunagba, the APC should instead be remorseful and beg Nigerians for forgiveness.

He said, “The claim made by the President about the PDP is laughable. APC used lies and propaganda to clinch power and that is what the PDP lost to in 2015.

“APC is a special-purposeful vehicle used to bring Buhari to power. In doing that, the party also brought chaos, deaths, unemployment, sorrows and blood, fuel scarcity, hunger and other vices to the country.

“Imagine a country whose universities are shut due to lecturers’ strike, experiencing serious fuel scarcity and its President who is also the minister of petroleum jetting out to London to relax and take medication? It can only happen in an APC regime. That tells you how the party and its leaders love Nigeria and its people.”