Accusing the PDP of wrecking the country’s economy, creating massive insecurity and looting money meant for development, the APC said the opposition party should know that Nigerians have rejected it.
By Emma Ogbuehi
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, on Friday, took a swipe at the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) allegedly saying that the Federal Government and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) are planning to postpone the general election.
The ruling party which claimed that the PDP had become “a mess and total embarrassment to itself and its despondent members,” advised Nigerians to ignore the opposition party’s “senseless conjecture.”
A statement by Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media and Publicity APC Presidential Campaign Council, titled, “PDP is confused and afraid of its own shadows,” which was sent to TheNiche said the PDP has nothing profitable again to engage in other than raising false alarms, manufacturing outright lies and disseminating innuendos to deceive the public.
Calling Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the PDP presidential candidate an absentee candidate, the ruling party said the opposition party has become rudderless and confused, “Knowing that it has no path to victory and no real agenda for development to sell to Nigerians.”
Accusing the PDP of wrecking the country’s economy, creating massive insecurity and looting money meant for development, the APC said the opposition party should know that Nigerians have rejected it.
The statement reads: “Our attention has been drawn to the jumbled press statement given by the rudderless and very confused Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today. We have nothing but pity for a party that has become a mess and total embarrassment to itself and its despondent members.
“For lack of nothing tangible to tell Nigerians six weeks to a general election as its candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, disappeared from the campaign trail, PDP has resorted to making irresponsible statements just to fill media space.
“The latest is the false information that the Federal Government and INEC plan to postpone the general election.
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“Nigerians are advised to ignore this senseless conjecture from PDP as there is no iota of truth in the allegation.
“The electoral umpire has made it abundantly clear of its readiness to conduct the elections and these elections will hold as scheduled in February and March this year.
“President Muhammadu Buhari who has given this country the most credible elections both regular and off season since 2015 has consistently assured Nigerians, even up to two days ago that 2023 elections will hold.
“Similarly the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has reiterated President Buhari’s position that the Federal Government has no intention to postpone elections.
“Knowing that it has no path to victory and no real agenda for development to sell to Nigerians by its absentee presidential candidate, PDP has nothing profitable again to engage in other than raising false alarms, manufacturing outright lies and disseminating innuendos to deceive the public.
“PDP should know that Nigerians have rejected it and no amount of falsehood can redeem a political party that wrecked our economy, under its watch, created massive insecurity and looted money meant for development.
“If we go by what the party’s presidential candidate has been saying, no lesson about the ignoble past has been learnt as he has promised to sell the NNPC Limited assets for just $10 billion, the way he sold prime national assets for peanuts under his care.
“As a party and presidential campaign council, we are focused on the message of renewed hope of our candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima.
“We shall also continue to tell Nigerians about the achievements of the APC-led Federal Government of President Muhammadu Buhari across sectors especially in areas of the infrastructural development, agricultural revolution and food security, rebuilding of our armed forces with sophisticated hardware and reforms in the oil and gas sector among others.”