The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on Nigerians to continue holding All Progressive Comgress Party (APC) and the President, Bola Tinubu for the excruciating suffering in the country.
In a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba on Monday slammed the APC and the Federal Government for attacking PDP Governors for speaking out against the failures APC-led govt which the party said plunged Nigerians into this hardship.
The Party restated its position that the APC-led administration are responsible for the current biting economic hardship and surging wave of insecurity across country as they are completely overwhelmed and lack the capacity and competence to lead a nation like Nigeria.
“By seeking to allocate President Tinubu’s statutory duties to State Governors, the APC has unambiguously admitted that it foisted on Nigerians an incompetent President who cannot guarantee security
“And whose administration has devastated our national economy resulting in extreme hunger, hopelessness and desperation as evident in the protests, agitation and rising spate of suicide across the country.
“Every Nigerian is lamenting the terrible situation which Tinubu’s ill-informed and ill-implemented policies have brought upon the nation”.
The Party pressed further that President Tinubu is directly in charge of security and the national economic policies including administration of petroleum resources as Minister of Petroleum Affairs; other national revenues.
“And cannot transfer his incompetence and failure to other Tiers of Government which have no control over national security, fiscal, monetary policies, which mismanagement by President Tinubu’s government has crippled our economy.
“Moreover, State Governors have no control over the pervading corruption and continuing monumental treasury-looting under Tinubu who has failed to take concrete measures to curb the malaise”.
PDP emphasized that it’s an assault on the sensibility of Nigerians that instead of charging the government it formed to live up to its billings, the APC is seeking a sordid and depraved approach to divert public attention from its failures.
“From its diversionary statement, it is clear that the APC is jittery and afraid that it has been exposed following revelations, reports in the public space that its leaders involved in multiple scams, fraudulent deals through which they continue to siphon funds meant for the wellbeing of the people resulting in the unbearable hardship being experienced by Nigerians today.
“The complicity of the APC leaders apparently informs why they have remained silent in the face of the incompetence, monumental treasury-looting and corruption in the Tinubu administration.
“Our Party counsels President Tinubu and the APC to face their self-inflicted woes and heed the patriotic call of the PDP governors who are providing quality leadership with life-enhancing projects and programmes in their various States in line with the people- oriented manifesto and policy thrust of the PDP.
“It is evident today across Nigeria that it is only PDP governors and other PDP elected public officials that are commissioning legacy and life-enriching projects and programmes with which they’re repositioning their States and various constituencies into Oases of Development”.
It added that the Party will not hesitate to name APC leaders allegedly involved in the continuing treasury-plundering as the APC must not be allowed to “grab, snatch and run” with our national patrimony at the expense of millions of our citizens.