The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP yesterday took a swipe at President Muhammadu Buhari, asking him and the All Progressives Congress, APC led government to as a matter of urgency, articulate an economic direction and stop appropriating the achievements of past administration as theirs.
According to PDP, instead of trying to poach achievements to earn an undeserved praise, the APC and its government should brace up, articulate a precise economic policy, assemble an economic team and urgently commence the delivery of their promises for which they were voted.
In a statement yesterday by PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh stressed that it was disappointing that a government which came to power on claims of high moral ground, rather than focus on delivering its promises, “is dancing around the achievements of the previous government in an attempt to make the public believe that recorded successes in critical sectors are theirs.”
The PDP noted that with the economic direction if put in place, it would help activate the various economic outlets that he said have been stagnated as a result of what he termed, their obvious inability to articulate a clear-cut economic policy for the nation.
Metuh said, “The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counsels the All Progressives Congress (APC) to always be sincere and stop appropriating the achievements of past administration as theirs.
“The APC and President Muhammadu Buhari should make haste and activate the various economic outlets which have been stagnated as a result of their obvious inability to articulate a clear-cut economic policy for the nation.
“For instance, how do we explain APC’s spirited effort to make the public believe that the equipping of the country’s military for the fights against insurgency; the turn around of the nation’s oil refineries; and the polio-free certification of Nigeria were products of their government even when it is common knowledge that they have not been able to find their bearing for governance since their election into office.
“If the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki had not been courageous enough to release those incontrovertible facts that the Goodluck Jonathan-led PDP administration actually fortified the country’s military before leaving office in May, the APC would have succeeded in its propaganda against that administration and led Nigerians to believe that the equipping was a product of President Buhari’s recent diplomatic shuttles.
“It is an obvious fact that before the May 29 handover to the APC, the Nigerian armed forces, using these equipment sourced under the watch of the PDP government, had already pushed the insurgents to the verge of surrender in the Sambisa forest, only for them to now resurge under the APC-led government due to apparent lack of direction and confusion that have characterized this administration.
“In the same way, this government has positioned itself to claim credit for the turn around and resuscitation of some of the nation’s oil refineries without reference to the past administration that initiated and executed the Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) of the facilities years back, which dividends the nation now enjoys and which we expect will result in steady supply of petroleum products in our nation.
“Similarly, informed Nigerians note with dismay how the APC administration has been celebrating the certification of Nigeria as polio-free in the last one year by the World Health Organization (WHO) without giving credit to the PDP-led government under whose watch the feat was achieved.
“While the PDP well understands the nervousness of the APC and its government in the challenge of fulfilling their bogus promises upon which they rode to power, such does not in any way rationalise the resort to deceit and flagrant appropriation of another’s achievements, a thing no serious, credible and honest government will do.”
Metuh who noted that the PDP finds it unacceptable, not withstanding the reasons being adduced, for a government in a democratic setting to run for almost three months without a cabinet and any policy direction whatsoever, said, “This is the first time since independence that our nation has stayed without a complete composition of government for three months. Unfortunately, the negative effect of this anomaly, which has taken a huge toll on the country’s economy and the welfare of Nigerians, will be with us in the coming years.
“We express this concern against the backdrop of information that unpatriotic persons close to government are already hounding civil servants for inflated concessions, allocations, jobs and other favours being unduly granted, making the system fertile for heavy financial sleazes in the absence of appropriate statutory supervising officers.
“This is in addition to the avoidable economic downturn now manifesting in the abandonment of ongoing infrastructural projects, crippling of foreign and domestic investments and continued slide in the money and capital markets.
“Finally, we want to reiterate our earlier call on Nigerians to continue to pray for President Muhammadu Buhari, who for obvious reasons is surrounded by people whose divergent personal interests have become a huge burden on our dear nation, the integrity of this government, the health of our economy and sustenance of our democracy”.
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Pdp is not serious, period!
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ReplyDeleteSee these fools. Turn aroundaintenance, why you no do am in your sixteen years? Now wey the general don't enter, him do am in two months. You come dey shout past administration. Why dem no do am? Instead, na subsidy dem dey shout all along. To the point wey subsidy reach 2trilion naira. All along, na the money dem dey chop, dey get fat. Lousy fools.
ReplyDeleteSee these fools. Turn aroundaintenance, why you no do am in your sixteen years? Now wey the general don't enter, him do am in two months. You come dey shout past administration. Why dem no do am? Instead, na subsidy dem dey shout all along. To the point wey subsidy reach 2trilion naira. All along, na the money dem dey chop, dey get fat. Lousy fools.
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