The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign
council says a comment by Iyorchia Ayu, national chairman of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), is the reality and not a slip of the tongue.
While speaking at a rally in Kano state on Thursday, Ayu
said: “PDP has brought us shame”, but after a few seconds, he corrected himself
and said “APC”.
In a statement on Friday, Bayo Onanuga, the council’s
director of media, said the comment was self-admission that his party failed
Nigerians when it was in power for 16 years.
Onanuga said the APC has been struggling to fix the problems
created by the opposition party.
“One of the recent
reminders of the failure of the umbrella party was the Ajaokuta Steel Complex.
The party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar as head of the Obasanjo era
privatization programme, granted Global Steel a concession in 2004 to take over
the company,” the statement reads.
“Another PDP government canceled the concession when it
found out that it was a mess.
“Global Steel took the Nigerian government to court and
demanded $7 billion compensation, even though it failed to fulfill the terms of
the concession by making Ajaokuta a reality.
“The case lingered
for 12 years until the APC administration of President Muhammadu Buhari stepped
in. Global Steel agreed to end its legal battle and walk away with $496 million
of Nigeria’s money.
“PDP has become a danger to itself and a big threat to our
country that must be finally exterminated from our body politic by Nigerians
through their votes against the party that set our country back.
“In our view, Iyorchia Ayu did not suffer from slip of the
tongue. He was only reflecting an inner guilt about the grave damage his party
inflicted on our country for 16 years.”
Onanuga said Nigerians must not make the mistake of allowing
the PDP to get into power again.
APC to Ayu: You did not suffer a slip of tongue| It’s the
reality
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Both the PDP and APC are the same, as Thiefnubu is guffing in one hand, Ayu is completing him on the other hand. If we actually need peace, unity and progress of Nigeria, then PDP and APC are never an option in the forthcoming presidential election
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