The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, has expressed confidence that Nigerians will vote out the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Federal level in the February 2023 presidential election, as the Buhari-led APC government has brought untold hardship and retrogression to Nigerians.
Elumelu made the remark on Tuesday while canvassing support for candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Delta North ward-to-ward campaign in the Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency of Delta State.
The Federal Lawmaker, who was in the Delta North PDP campaign team, led by the Senatorial Chairman, Elder Dickson Moses Iduh, visited 10 wards in Aniocha North Local Government Area, within a period of two days, where he harped extensively on the need for Nigerians, particularly the people of Delta state to ensure that they returned PDP to power at the centre to rescue and reset Nigeria.
The Minority Leader, who represents the Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency in the Green Chamber, stated that the return of PDP to power in 2023 with Atiku Abubakar as President, would guarantee unity of the country and ensure that every Nigerian, irrespective of state, region, or faith was carried along.

He assured that the PDP when voted into office would open up the system and provide facilities to Nigerians, particularly in small and medium enterprises, including petty traders and artisans, to enhance their businesses and boost the national economy.
Elumelu stressed that Atiku Abubakar wiuld provide good and progressive governance where equity, fairness, justice and security would be guaranteed for every citizen.
The Federal Lawmaker called on the people of Delta North to reciprocate the good gesture of the PDP in making their son and Governor of the tate, Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Okowa, the Vice-Presidential candidate, describing Okowa as a nationalist who had helped, in no small measure, to transform Delta state, particularly through the Stronger Delta Agenda.
While canvassing votes for the PDP Governorship candidate in the state, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, the Deputy Governorship candidate, Sir Monday Onyeme, the Delta North Senatorial candidate, Hon. Ned Nwoko and the candidate for the State House of Assembly election in the Aniocha North Constituency, Hon. (Engr.) Emeke Nwaobi, Elumelu stressed that a vote for him to continue in the House of Representatives was a vote for more infrastructural development, more empowerment for the people and more youth inclusiveness in politics and governance.

He expressed optimism that PDP would be voted overwhelmingly by the people of Delta state and Nigerians across the country in the 2023 general elections.
“PDP left Power in 2015 with Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) selling for N165, today it is almost N500; our naira was N180 to a dollar, today it is almost N1000 to a Dollar; our national debt as at today is 90.8 billion dollars.
“In 2015 we had good roads, today federal roads are death traps; from Benin to Onitsha is not passable. It is only being managed. We cannot even access Agbor to Abuja. It was not the case before. Under the APC government, they no longer service the roads.
“The educational system is in shambles, your children who are in the Universities stayed at home for almost nine months. The APC government is unconcerned about the plight of the people.
“Under the APC our aviation sector is suffering a direct hit to the extent that a ticket from Asaba to Lagos or Abuja now costs about N120,000. That was not the case in 2015”, Elumelu explained.
The Federal Lawmaker also lamented that hospitals under the APC government were left with no drugs and basic equipment.
“Even the President, Muhammadu Buhari, is in London as we speak for medical attention”, he said.

Elumelu recalled the efforts of the Minority Caucus of the House of Representatives to ensure credible elections in 2023 and urged Nigerians to take advantage of the reforms achieved.
“If you recall, before we passed the Electoral Bill, I took members of the Minority Caucus of the House of Representatives to walk out on the House because they were rejecting the issue of the electronic transmission of election results. We insisted and since we were able to enforce it, you have seen what happened in Osun state where they thought they could rig the election”.
Elumelu said emphatically that rigging could no longer take place in Nigeria, based on the fact that the people had seen the light.
The Minority Leader bemoaned the security situation in the country and said people were not safe even in their houses and could not freely move around the country, lamenting that the APC-led Federal Government had no value for the lives of Nigerians.
Elumelu also knocked the APC for its insensitivity towards the cultural and religious sensibilities of Nigerians.
“We know that Nigeria is a secular state where everybody is entitled to his or her faith or religion, but APC in total disregard and disrespect to the sensibilities of Nigerians came up with a Muslim -Muslim Presidential ticket.
“APC is not a Pan Nigeria party and that is why they have been rejected by Nigerians.
‘I am confident that come 2023, PDP will come out victorious in the general elections. With the situation on ground in Nigeria, anybody voting APC does not mean well for himself or herself, and the entire nation’, Elumelu stated.
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