Garba Shehu, spokesman of
President Muhammadu Buhari, says the opposition has more money than the
government.
Shehu said the amount of money
spent by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during its convention in Port
Harcourt should be a major concern to Nigerians.
He alleged that some opposition
parties have taken it upon themselves to worsen the differences between
Nigerians through religion and ethnicity.
“This opposition, it must be
said, has liquidity of the type that government itself does not have. The US
Dollar rain by a major opposition party at their convention in Port Harcourt is
a dire warning in this direction,” he said in an article.
“This contrasts sharply with the
high level of discipline put in place through the Treasury Single Account (TSA)
being implemented by the Buhari government.
“It is a matter for great concern
that the leading opposition parties have resolved to undertake a campaign
clearly aimed at aggravating differences between Nigerians on the basis of
especially religion, region and tribe.
“A document in circulation, from
the resolutions of a retreat in a foreign country by one of the parties makes
no pretense about their plan to cause tension between various communities.
“They have dramatically begun
actions to destroy the integrity of the election process.
“Even before the gates open for
the race to begin, this country is already witness to a unique type of campaign
based on unverified allegation or distortion propagated in the two chambers of
the national assembly which are strangely led by opposition candidates in a
minority party in the coming election.”
He accused the opposition party
of being bent on distracting the electorate by appealing to their sectional
feelings.
He said the Buhari administration
is carrying out reforms which no other government had ever done since the
country gained independence in 1960.
“For the All Progressives
Congress (APC) administration at the center, initial moves towards 2019 have
been about the effort to publicise the administration’s achievements while at
the same time dispelling negative propaganda by the opposition,” he said.
“While it is clear that the
opposition is unprepared for a contest based on policies programs, and past
records of work, they are bent on distracting the attention of voters by
appealing to sectional feelings and throwing voters into confusion. Churches
and Mosques and other places of worship are being recruited for election
propaganda.
“We are proud of our achievement,
but we must first of all make the voter to illustrate where we are coming from
because without doing that, it is hard for many to appreciate the enormous
strides the nation has made under the present dispensation.
“If we had continued with the
pace, corruption and ineptitude that characterized the war against Boko Haram
in 2015, it would have taken us decades to eliminate the terrorists hold om
Nigeria territory and have them confined to a little corner in the country by
the banks of the Lake Chad.
“The Buhari administration has
shown the ability to take hard decisions, in the nation’s interest as has been
seen in dealing with the economy.
“This administration is doing
something that no government had done since independence in 1960, which is
moving the economy in a completely new direction.”
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