As Nigeria celebrates 25 years of uninterrupted return to democracy, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, ATIKU ABUBAKAR, has berated the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the nation’s economic woes.

In his message to Nigerians, the former vice president said the past nine years of the APC administration has thrown up a regime of extreme hardship manifested in excruciating poverty and unprecedented levels of violence and insecurity upon thepeople.

While criticising opposition parties for failing to unite and form a coalition capable of unseating the ruling APC, he berated the opposition parties for failing to present a governance plan that would gain the confidence of Nigerians.

The former vice president, however, asserted that there is no substitute for democracy as a form of government.