ABUJA, Federal Republic of Nigeria. In what looks like a reversal of its statements chiding a group within the party that asked President Muhammadu Buhari to resign if he cannot perform, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Thursday charged the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Presidency to stop making a mockery of governance with premature celebration of imaginary achievements except if the intention is to set up Buhari for national and international ridicule.
It further said that it was embarrassing for the APC and aides of the President to invade the minds of Nigerians with propaganda and tissues of lies instead of assisting Buhari who was inaugurated three weeks ago to settle down, form a government and deliver his campaign promises to Nigerians.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, said in a statement on Thursday: “The nation and democrats world over were thoroughly embarrassed by the frivolous list of so-called achievements which has further exposed APC’s lack of capacity and direction as well as the inability to draw a line between propaganda by an opposition party and disseminating of credible information as a party in government”.
“How can a serious government start shouting achievements and make bogus claims on the fight against terrorism when the effort is apparently losing steam as insurgents who had already been pushed to the verge of surrender in the Sambisa forest by the Goodluck Jonathan administration are now surging back into the country under the APC-led government?
“How can a serious government shout achievement based on pledges by foreign interests, a dangerous slide towards neo-colonialism, instead of settling down to galvanize bequeathed resources and potentials that have already placed our great country as one of the fastest emerging economic and political powers in the world?
“How can a serious government shout achievement and attempt to explain away the untidy fact that after three weeks, it has not been able to organize itself even to take basic steps of conventional appointments such as Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Chief of Staff to the President and advisers in key sectors of the economy?
“We ask, is the APC celebrating the fact that due to its naivety and delays, key sectors of our nation’s economy are dangerously drifting with a perilous crippling of foreign and domestic investments including activities in the money and capital market sectors?”
Credit: ThisDay
