PDP Hails Workers’ Cause To National Dev

The Peoples Democratic Party, has commended Nigerian workers for their diligence and steadfastness to the cause of nation building.

Expressing the party’s solidarity to the workers during this year’s May Day, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh said “the National Chairman of the party, Dr. Bamanga Turkur on behalf of millions of members of the party wishes to salute the Nigerian workers for their invaluable contributions in the last twelve years of the PDP leadership of the nation”.

According to the statement, “one of the visions of the founding fathers of the PDP is to rebuild and re-energise the nation‘s workforce which was neglected under decades of military rule into a formidable and efficient service capable of driving national development objectives.”

Said the PDP, “we have taken crucial steps towards achieving this goal as the civil service reform which the PDP-led Federal Government initiated and has been implementing have achieved levels of successes in critical areas”.

The Party mentioned the monetisation of fringe benefits of workers, Contributory Pension scheme, civil service e-payment system, right-sizing of the service, rationalisation and restructuring of ministries and agencies of government as well as the establishment of SERVICOM to provide adequate feedback on service provision and the success of these reforms.

The statement added that “under the PDP, the nation now has the Freedom of Information Act to ginger vigilance and ease the investigative scrutiny of all Nigerians on the fidelity of service rendered to them.”

The PDP further said it will continue to take serious, the issue of welfare of workers and will remain committed to the success of the reforms intended to achieve a competent work force that can meet the challenges of the time.

It said, “we recall that since 1999, the Peoples Democratic Party has kept the issue of workers welfare high on its agenda and has in fact successfully effected wage increment twice in the last twelve years. We shall continue to be alive to our responsibilities to the Nigerian workers”.

In a similar vein, the Peoples Democratic Party has once again expressed unwavering confidence on the ability of President Goodluck Jonathan to tackle the current security challenges in the country.

The Party said that despite senseless criticisms by the opposition, the PDP led federal Government has done well in tackling security challenges in the country. “We must emphasize that the current spate of terrorism is an attack on the entire nation and not on the PDP or the President. It is therefore inhuman and heinous for the opposition to continue to politicise this phenomenon.”  Asked the PDP statement, “is the opposition gloating over the mindless murder of innocent Nigerians and the destruction of their property?”