The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has chided the All Progressive Congress over plan to boycott the proposed national dialogue, describing such decision as myopic, hypocritical, self serving and hollow.

The PDP's image maker in Oyo State, Lukman Agboluwaji said in a statement in Ibadan on Tuesday described the step as a twist from its recently past clamour for national dialogue as panacea to mirage of socio- political and economic problems facing the country.

Oyo PDP recalled that one of the leaders of APC and the incumbent governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi recently admitted being an unrepentant promoter of national conference in a recent report carried by one of the national dailies. It also noted that the late sage, Obafemi Awolowo, their acclaimed forebear and mentor in his days vehemently opposed the idea of boycotting either election, any meeting or opportunity for dialogue that could strengthen democracy.

Rather than pre-judging President Goodluck Jonathan, the APC should give him a chance and allow Nigerians to see what the outcome of the proposed conference would look like, the party stated.

“The natural question to ask the APC is that when and how would the various

components that constitute the Nigerian state be allowed to come together to discuss the basis of their continued co-existence?  “Is it when the APC is able to attain its pipe dream of attaining power at the federal level that Nigeria would be ripe enough for a national conference”, Oyo PDP queried?," it added.

The party stated that by its action, the APC governments in the states they govern would be shutting out a significant proportion of the populace from ventilating their views on the state of the Nigerian union. Whatever may be the repercussion of such self-serving decision, the Oyo PDP noted

would be a lesson to the people affected, especially the Yoruba people of South-West of the country and “it is an eye opener especially to our not again to vote without questioning those who always masquerade as progressives at future elections.

“The scenario playing itself out is one of the numerous repercussions of not

aligning with the party at the center”, Agboluaje said.