FAILURE! PDP Links Youths' Suicide Trend, Others To Buhari, APC's Poor Governance

The Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday lamented that the country had been witnessing what it called escalated despondency, depression and misery since the conclusion of the last presidential election.

The party stated this in reaction to the increase in the rate of suicide, youths’ desperation to travel abroad and other social vices since the conclusion of the 2019 presidential election.

In a statement by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, the former ruling party charged Nigerians to “uphold and support one another in love, at this trying time to check the rising social degeneration in our nation, particularly acts of suicide.”

The PDP described poverty, hunger and rising insecurity “under the incompetent, corrupt, divisive and manipulative All Progressives Congress administration,” as a national tragedy.

The statement read, "In the last few months, the news media has been awash with horrible reports of teenage suicide in our country.

“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.

“Constitutional violations, human rights abuses, arbitrary arrests, extra-judicial killings, assault on perceived dissenting voices and attempt at the annexation of our institutions of democracy, particularly the judiciary, signposts a nation in dire strait."

“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.

The PDP, however, called on Nigerians not to despair but “stand firm in their collective determination to retrieve the stolen Presidential mandate at the tribunal, so they can have an administration that truly cares for them and which has the competence to return our nation on her deserved path of peace, national cohesion and economic prosperity.”