The All
Progressives Congress has said the Peoples Democratic Party as a party cannot
provide a worthwhile opposition to the APC-led Federal Government if its
spokesman continues to issue “convoluted and fustian statements” in order to 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 in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary,
Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
”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
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 organise a crash course for Olisa Metuh(National Publicity Secretary,
PDP) so that he can more effectively perform his role as the spokesman of the
main opposition party.
”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,” APC said.
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.”
APC
added, “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.
”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.”
0 comments:
Post a Comment