The Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has challenged President Muhammadu
Buhari to stop taking credit for projects initiated by the administration of
PDP.
The former Vice President called
on the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) administration to focus on its
core mandate and desist from propaganda.
He pointed out that most of the
developmental projects so far inaugurated by Buhari were initiated and mostly
fully paid for by the past PDP administrations of Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru
Yar’Adua and Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, hence the current government can’t take
the credit for them.
The Waziri of Adamawa was
reacting to the inauguration of the new terminal of the Nnamdi Azikiwe
International Airport, Abuja by Buhari yesterday.
In a statement issued yesterday
in Abuja by his Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, the
PDP presidential candidate said the new terminal, like many others were
conceived, signed, awarded and paid for by Jonathan’s administration.
The statement reads: “It needs to
be emphasised that new terminal of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport is
among the many projects conceived and started by the immediate past PDP
administration of Jonathan.
“The last administration had
obtained a $500 million facility from the Chinese Exim Bank, with additional
funding of $100 million from Nigeria to build four international terminals in
Port Harcourt, Lagos, Abuja and Kano. We understand that governance is a
continuum and that’s why there should not be unnecessary orgasms by
sympathizers of the Buhari’s administration in trying to change the narrative
that the new terminal and the one earlier commissioned in Port Harcourt were
achievements of the Buhari administration.
“Isn’t it strange that the APC is
now resorting to projects conceived and executed by PDP as its achievements in
office after spending almost four years in office with nothing to show for it?”
The PDP presidential candidate
insisted that projects like the completion of Kaduna-Abuja railway line and the
Abuja metro line among other projects were at advanced stages before the
expiration of Jonathan’s tenure in office.
He, consequently, dared the
President and the All Progressives Congress, APC, to list projects conceived,
started and inaugurated by them since assumption of office.
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