The All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) has called on Muslims across the country to use the festive period to pray for divine intervention in the numerous problems bedeviling the country.

The party said yesterday in Abuja that the "tyrannical, dubious, and tortuous" leadership by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had held Nigeria to ransom for over 10 years as deceit, visionlessness and corruption among other unfulfilled promises had become the order of the day.

National Publicity Secretary of ANPP, Emma Eneukwu, said the nation needs divine intervention to usher in good leadership that would appropriately represent the people in the 2011 general elections and to deliver the much needed dividends of democracy which the party said had remained an illusion.

"We ask God to use his infinite mercy to intervene in the numerous problems that bedevil our beloved country, Nigeria, as a result of bad leadership by the PDP... May God use this period of Eid-el-Kabir to intervene in our country and give us the wisdom to overcome all these different tactics adopted by the PDP to destroy our democracy thereby subjecting the masses to abject poverty and torture.

He said the 6,000 mega watts target before the end of the year as promised by the PDP government remained a "mouth blow", as the government had only been able to achieve less than 2,000 mega watts presently in use, and the year is almost ended, thereby throwing the nation into epileptic power supply and at times total darkness.