The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has lamented that two years after the All Progressives Congress, APC, took over power, it has continued to descend into “shameless abyss of propaganda, blame-game, and media trial of previous administrations.”
While stating that the APC government under President Muhammadu Buhari has remained a failure, the PDP challenged the ruling party to tell its achievement in education, agriculture, sports development,job creation, and economy, among others.
PDP was reacting to an earlier statement by the APC, in which it said that Nigerians have not forgotten the alleged rot and misdeeds of the PDP, while in government.
In its response, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, the Spokesman of the National Caretaker Committee of the PDP, in a statement on Friday, detailed how the APC has remained a failure, and is only good at dishing out propaganda to Nigerians.
Part of the statement read: “It has been two years since the ‘ruling party in opposition’ took over power in May 2015, and all the APC has done since assumption of office, is complaining and whining, instead of governance and delivering to Nigerians its campaign promises.
“Nigerians have not also forgotten how the APC in opposition politicized all issues of governance, without proffering a single solution to any of them, but remained adamant, condemning the sincere policies of previous PDP administrations.
“Nigerians thought the only reply by the APC to our statement of Wednesday, March 29, 2017, would have been for the party to roll out its achievements in the last two years, instead of another shameless descent into the abyss of propaganda, blame-game, and media trial of previous PDP-led administrations.
“We still maintain that Nigerians should take a critical look at the Mid-Term Report of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s Administration, and compare it to that of the current APC-led government, and access them on performance and achievements.
“On the much celebrated anti-corruption fight of the APC, it must be noted that it was previous PDP governments that created and sustained all the institutions for fighting corruption, such as the ICPC and the EFCC. Under the PDP administrations, most of those who were tried by these agencies were PDP members.
“There was no effort to shield PDP members from prosecution and investigation as it is the case with the APC Government which has made it a policy to sweep all the dirt of its members under the carpet.
“Recall, the grass cutting allegations against the SGF, the awards of contracts to ghost companies by the Federal Government Committee on North-East, allegation of attempted bribery of Judges by the Minister of Transport, and that of Science and Technology, the CBN Forex racketeering, and most recently, the DSS’ indictment of the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu, and many others.
“May we again remind the APC that the Dollar under the PDP government was N165 to 1 US Dollar. Today, the difference is there for everyone to see. The 18,000 Naira minimum wage could buy 2 bags of Rice and still had some change in the PDP-led government, but today, where are we?
“Nigerians have never been so hungry in their entire lives, except during the Civil War, as seen in the last two years. The APC Spokesman forgot to add that the Federal Government under the PDP, created 500,000 jobs a year for our teeming unemployed youths. Since the APC-led Administration took over, more than 4.5 million people have lost their jobs.”
