The All Progressives Congress has challenged the PDP to tell Nigerians how it plans to move from the near zero governance of the past six years of the Jonathan Administration to good and purposeful governance, instead of engaging in perpetual and tiring mudslinging.
”We believe that elections should be about issues that will be beneficial to the electorate, not about throwing everything but the kitchen sink at a particular candidate simply because of his soaring acceptability.
”Therefore, it is time for the PDP to end the muckraking and tell Nigerians how it plans to tackle the worsening insecurity in the land, the collapsing national currency, with the US dollar now exchanging for 215 Naira, massive unemployment, especially among the youth, decayed infrastructure and the unprecedented corruption under President Jonathan’s watch,” the party said in a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
It said the essence of the sustained campaign of calumny against Gen. Buhari by the PDP is to distract the APC from telling Nigerians how it plans to effect the much-needed change from zero to purposeful governance, and also to sweep under the carpet the glaring failures of the Jonathan Administration.
”In both instances, the PDP has failed, as Nigerians have refused to be swayed by all the scandal mongering by the PDP, while the APC has remained focused in selling its game-changing manifesto to the citizenry,” APC said.
The party said the PDP and President Jonathan should tell Nigerians what happened to the 20-billion-dollar missing oil funds, amid concerns that the money could have vanished into the ruling party’s slush funds for electioneering campaign.
”Nigerians are also asking: Mr. President, where are the Chibok girls who were abducted nine months ago, and whom you promised to reunite with their families? What happened to the stage-managed truce with Boko Haram and why has no one been punished for deceiving Nigerians? Mr. President, where is the report of the forensic audit you ordered into the missing $20b oil funds? It is now two months since the deadline set by your Finance Minister for the release of that audit report. Will the report go the way of others before it?
”Mr. President, you said while campaigning for the 2011 elections that ‘four years is enough for anyone to make significant improvement, and if I can’t improve on power within this period, it means I cannot do anything’. Why should Nigerians trust you to deliver on your promises this time around, now that the power situation has gone from bad to worse under your watch?
”Mr. President, instead of creating jobs for the teeming unemployed youth of Nigeria, your administration has been fleecing and sending them to their early graves, as it happened during the fraudulent Immigration recruitment exercise in March 2014 when many innocent youths got death instead of jobs? When will you move from creating phantom jobs to real jobs? These are the issues that are bothering Nigerians and these are the issues they want answers to, instead of engaging in an unprecedented personality-focused campaign,” the party said.
APC said the truth is that the PDP and President Jonathan do not have any answers to those serious issues raised above, hence they have decided to engage in a multi-pronged approach of mudslinging, campaign for election postponement and the instigation of violence to scuttle next month’s general elections, among others.
APC as a party behaves like a pack of nonentities. Why must they keep on mentioning problems facing GEJ? Are they not coming to face challenges? Even thier so called Buhari can only tell Nigerias: I will provide job, I will end Boko haram, I will fight corruption, I will do this I will do that without telling Nigerians the steps, the ideas, the methods, the causes etc. This is what one sees while having a one man status. PDP is far more better in terms of experience, technique, stability etc.
ReplyDeleteI am disappointed at you Anonymous 3:50, for your information those things highlighted above are issues not personal attack. They are problems facing us which the president ought to have addressed. Again as an incumbent who is looking for re election the focus should be on defending records. As for APC strategy listen to its campaign. GMB has promised to fight corruption by ensuring that anyone caught will be prosecuted, to use recovered looted money to finance infrastructures and fight insecurity. It is left for us to choose between the present bad situations and better future.
ReplyDeleteAPC is trying to use banana to catch Monkey. Nigerians bewear ooo.
ReplyDeletePdp and jona are thesame and both are failure. This same party called pdp has ruled ds country for 16years without anything to show for it. After after 16years of pdp administration I still power my generator all nite, dug my own borehole, av a high fence in my house with security dogs......... what else? Jonathan shld go back to otuoke with is phd we don't need dt for now, all we are craving for now is change..........
ReplyDeleteIt's crystal clear, that GEJ was careless to keep bunch of evil sycophants, who were only good at offering him impotent advise that culminate into the governance crisis he is facing in economy, polity and security to be his inner caucus member. These governance crisis, are the issues APC is using to win electorates sympathy, as a result, PDP is loosing popularity everyday including those who founded it. These campaign advantage by APC are the reasons why PDP condescended to pettiness and campaigns of calumny. PDP lack issues against the opposition they added more problems...that's why PDP is mudslinging and rubble rousing, casting aspersions on GMB instead of explaining how to solve the problems they created and the quagmire they deliberately plunge us into.
ReplyDeleteNigerians are wise now. They thought they can deceive us now.
ReplyDelete-Up till now, territories are being captured, innocents citizens are massively killed. Yet this govt is comfortable.
-decay in our educational sector.
-decay in our health sector.
-neglect of workers welfare -strike upon strike from all sectors
-no respect in d rule of law -impunity
-unemployment on the increase
-insincerity on the govt
-CORRUPTION! CORRUPTION!! CORRUPTION!!!
what more can I mentioned?
We need change!
Annonymous 5:40, thank God jona goes back to otuoke with his phd, now tell me, with which certificate will buhari rule this con3. Apc nd it's followers re compound fools, instead of them thinking of a way to get a certificate for buhari prefer to ask for money they know noting about. Blind fools of the century.
ReplyDeleteEven with GMB phcn bill or water bill majority prefered him. Tell ur drunken master GEJ to start arranging his load bcos time is up for his cluelessness...
DeleteGMB all d way
ReplyDeleteAPC should not deceive themself Buhari is a big mistake with F9 in mathematics uponn a forged result What iSsue is more important that the Mr "clean" is not clean after all
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