Perhaps, the problem within is bigger than believed, if the Peoples Democratic Party, hasn’t still realised why it failed to get the votes of majority of Nigerians during the last polls.

According to the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Olisa Metuh, only Nigerians can answer this question.

While speaking at the 17th year’s anniversary of the formation of the PDP, Metuh said his party did its best and created a lot of wealthy Nigerians.

He said, “Only the voting public can say why we were rejected. We must have made our mistakes and some of the issues that affected the election had to do with the people.

“We believe that we did our best for the Nigerian people and we got the largest number of people from the Diaspora to start business here.

“In those 16 years, we did our best. We created a system where merits were recognised.

“We created a lot of super rich Nigerians, like Dangote, Oando and other companies. Nigerian companies now compete with foreign companies in the oil and gas sector.”

 

“Was corruption part of our achievements, no. In fact, anti-corruption was part of our achievements because we formed and created EFCC and the ICPC.

“These agencies were created with strict establishing and operation laws to ensure effectiveness and immunity from executive interferences.”

 

Speaking of defectors to the All Progressives Congress, Metuh said: “If people cannot handle competition, there is nothing we can do about that.”

“Some members felt that they were not well protected when they sought assistance. Others left because we lost election. Others for selfish reasons while some others left when they felt they were honestly not accommodated in the party.”

“Only the voting public can say why we were rejected. What happened during the election has nothing to do with our achievement.”