PDP Determined to Transfer Wealth to Masses -Tukur

The National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has said the party is determined to transfer wealth to the masses in the country.

He said this in a statement issued on Monday by the party`s National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Olisa Metuh.

Tukur said the party was also determined to establish a strong and sustainable middle class as defined in its ideology.

He, however, noted that the party needed the cooperation of all Nigerians to be able to deliver on its promises and to evolve a greater nation. 

``Nowhere in the world has true democracy and economic transformation evolved overnight; it takes time, sacrifice and patience.

 ``However, for the first time in the history of this great nation, we have had 13 years of an uninterrupted journey to the promise land.

``The PDP needs the cooperation of all Nigerians, especially the opposition parties and the civil society to join hands and build this great country of ours,’’ the News Agency of Nigeria quoted Tukur as saying in the statement.

He said the nation was going through a transition time, stressing that it was not a ``time to walk on political divide and demonise the ruling party because the issues involved was beyond politics.’’

 ``Unity should remain our watchword. It was unity that made us a great nation and leader of the African continent and will make us greater still.

 ``This is the time to come together and build afresh if only we can place the nation’s interest above personal ambitions.

 ``We may be of different ethnic groups, religion and ideology but our diversity is our greatest strength. PDP is always working to ensure that Nigeria is one nation, one people.

``Our commitment is to ensure meaningful changes in the life of the current administration,’’ the PDP chairman stated.

Tukur noted that when the party was entrusted with the leadership of the country in 1999, it promised to re-build the country based on the ideology of its founding fathers.

He added that the party had since then made significant progress in returning the country to the path of sustainable development and steady economic growth as a basis to stabilise and consolidate its democracy.

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