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| Lai Mohammed |
The All Progressives Congress (APC)
says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is “too blind with hatred” to
notice President Muhammadu Buhari’s hard work with solving the country’s
numerous problems. It also said PDP could not provide any
worthwhile opposition to the APC-led federal government if its spokesman
continues to issue “convoluted and fustian statements” just so that he can be
in the news.
“Today’s statement is the most tortuous yet by
the PDP and, honestly, sounds more like a compendium of beer-parlour gossips
and side talks than a serious criticism of a sitting government,” the APC said
in a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by Lai Mohammed, its spokesman.
TheCable report continues:
“To be in opposition does not mean you have to
constitute yourself to a nuisance by rushing to the press with all sorts of
hot-air statements. It is the quality, rather than the frequency, of your
interventions that makes you relevant as an opposition in a democracy.”
It said that in the light of the above, the APC
would not dignify the latest in a series of confused statements by the PDP with
any response.
“We can only say that we have been justified,
and indeed prescient, in our earlier offer to organize a crash course for Olisa
Metuh so that he can more effectively perform his role as the spokesman of the
main opposition party,” the APC said.
“Those who thought we were joking with that
offer can now see that indeed, Mr. Metuh is seriously in need of some form of
coaching on his new role.”
The party said for the record, no government in
Nigeria’s recent history had been as focused and systematic as the one headed
by President Muhammadu Buhari in restoring good governance, especially coming
after the worst stretch of governance, lasting all of 16 years, by the immoral
and reckless PDP.
“It is worth noting that even the leader of the
world’s foremost democracy, President Barack Obama, said that much during the
recent visit to the US of President Buhari, when he described him (President
Buhari) as a man of integrity with a clear agenda,” it said.
“President Buhari is working hard every day in
the priority areas of tackling security and corruption, rebooting the economy
to provide jobs for our teeming youths and generally to restore good governance.
We are sorry for those who are too blind with hatred to see this.
“We know that the PDP is terrified by the
expose of how the Federal Government it led has looted the treasury and created
an environment for impunity to thrive, as well as the fate that will befall
those who were part of the show of shame and disgust.
”But we assure Nigerians that this government
will not interfere with the work of the security and anti-corruption agencies,
and also that under the Buhari Administration, only the guilty needs to be
afraid.
"In the meantime, no amount
of mumbo jumbo from the PDP will stop the Buhari Administration from its tough
but inevitable task of restoring Nigeria’s lost glory.”
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