The Peoples Democratic Party has linked the high rate of suicide in the country to poor governance on the part of APC, adding that despondency, depres
The Peoples Democratic Party has linked the high rate of suicide in the country to poor governance on the part of APC, adding that despondency, depression and misery escalated in recent times since the conclusion of the last presidential election. The party urged Nigerians to support one another at this trying time, in order to check the rising social degeneration, particularly suicide.
According to the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP described poverty, hunger and rising insecurity under the incompetent, corrupt, divisive and manipulative All Progressives Congress administration, as a national tragedy.
His statement read, “Banditry, insurgency, marauding, bloodletting and kidnapping with unmentionable ransoms, have almost become daily occurrences. Our citizenry is now battling with the worst kind of siege mentality. Misery has set in. This is evident in the shrinking of our nation’s Gross Domestic Product to 2.1% in the first quarter of 2019.”
The opposition party said it was saddening that at the time Nigerians ought to be celebrating, they were rather forlorn, committing suicide and exiting the country in droves.
The PDP alleged that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC administration had refused to allow any scrutiny of its books, claiming that the records were catalogues of corruption, treasury looting, violations, impunity and acts that had brought the nation to its knees.
