Fix Nigeria, Stop Bickering, PDP Tells APC

By Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja
 

The National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by Senator Ahmed Makarfi has asked the ruling party, All Progressives Congress to deliver on promises made to Nigerians.

The opposition party said that it had been two years since APC took over power in May 2015, all it had done was complaining and whining, instead of governance and delivering to Nigerians its campaign promises.

In a statement issued by the Spokesman of the Caretaker Committee, Dayo Adeyeye, the party said Nigerians had never been as hungry in their entire lives, except during the civil war as seen in the last two years. 

“We read with amusement and utter dismay the APC statement in response to our patriotic assessment of its lackluster performance in the last two years,” he said.

The Spokesman maintained that Nigerians should take 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 assess them on performance and achievements.

“While we have no time to dwell on the internal leadership issues within the PDP in order not to fulfill the desires and aspirations of the APC, we wish to however remind the ‘ruling Party in opposition’ that Nigerians are also aware of the meddlesomeness of the APC in the current leadership issues in the PDP.

“Nigerians have not also forgotten how the APC in opposition politicised all issues of governance without proffering a single solution to any of them, but remained adamant, condemning the sincere policies of previous PDP administration .

“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 administration. However, we are not surprised because the APC has no achievement to flaunt before Nigerians than the boring rehash of what the PDP did or did not do, they said.

On the much celebrated anti-corruption fight, the Spokesman insisted that it was the 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. 

He accused the APC-led Government of making it a policy to sweep all the dirt of its members under the carpet.