LAGOS State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has tasked Lagosians to challenge the Peoples Democratic Party to show why its government has become one marked for mind boggling corruption which continues to impoverish and destroy Nigeria for the past sixteen years.

In a statement, yesterday, by its Publicity Secretary, Joe Igbokwe, the party urged Lagosians to “open their eyes and not fall prey to the evil and destructive gospel of PDP”.

The party said, “For some time now, the PDP in Lagos has been hallucinating on taking over power in Lagos. Lagosians that have witnessed responsible governance that has elevated Lagos from the slum President Olusegun Obasanjo described it 13 years ago to Africa’s fifth largest economy cannot but wonder what fires PDP’s recent optimism if not the wish that somehow it will bring its notorious ability to rig elections in Nigeria to its rich list of vassal territories.

“Since 1999, Nigeria, as the sixth largest producer of oil in the world has harvested over N150 trillion from oil alone. This is enough to make every Nigerian rich, as is the case with every other major oil producing nation on earth. But the reverse is the case in Nigeria, in the hands of the PDP governance of the country. Even as Nigerians pay the highest price for petroleum products among other oil producers, our roads remain the worst, Nigeria has the third largest population of poor people in the world, as more than 140 of the estimated 165 million Nigerians live below the poverty level, according to World Bank statistics.

“Today, Nigeria is ranked by UNICEF as the country with the second highest infant death rate in the world, our medical state is so terrible that our so called leaders jet to foreign countries to treat catarrh. Our educational system has almost completely gone bankrupt as Nigerian schools hardly make African Top 100 schools, mass failures in WAEC has become the fate of Nigerian educational system under PDP.”