APC Goes Tough On PDP, Request Answer To 6 Questions The All Progressives Congress (APC) has gone tough on President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), raising some serious issues to which they want answers. The APC, in a statement released on Sunday by its national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, criticised Jonathan and the ruling party for their continuous attack on Muhammadu Buhari, Punch reports. Lai said it was time for the PDP to end the muckraking, while Jonathan focuses in his campaign on how he would tackle national problems rather than attack Buhari, the APC presidential candidate. ’ We believe that elections should be about issues that will be beneficial to the electorate, not about throwing everything but the kitchen sink at a particular candidate simply because of his soaring acceptability ,” the party said. Lai Mohammed The party asked the PDP the following questions: – Can you tell Nigerians how you plan to tackle the worsening insecurity in the land, the collapsing national currency, with the US dollar now exchanging for N215, massive unemployment, especially among the young, decayed infrastructure and the unprecedented corruption on President Jonathan’s watch? READ ALSO : Orubebe Says APC Campaign Is Based on False Promises – Can you tell Nigerians what happened to the $20bn missing oil funds, and come clean on concerns that the money could have vanished into the ruling party’s slush funds for the election campaign; and tell Nigerians how you plan to move from the near zero governance of the past six years of the Jonathan administration to good and purposeful governance. – Mr President, where are the Chibok girls who were abducted nine months ago, and whom you promised to reunite with their families? What happened to the stage-managed truce with Boko Haram and why has no one been punished for deceiving Nigerians? – Can you tell Nigerians why soldiers are being sent to battle Boko Haram without the necessary equipment, even though trillions of Naira have been budgeted for the security and defence sector. – Can the president tell Nigerians why he castrated the anti-corruption agencies, rendering them comatose and unable to tackle the runaway corruption in the country. The APC wondered why Nigerians should trust Jonathan to deliver on his promises this time, if in the last four years he has not made any significant improvement. READ ALSO : APC Accuses PDP Of Sponsoring Attacks To Postpone Polls “Mr. President, you said while campaigning for the 2011 elections that ‘four years is enough for anyone to make significant improvement, and if I can’t improve on power within this period, it means I cannot do anything’. Why should Nigerians trust you to deliver on your promises this time around, now that the power situation has gone from bad to worse under your watch? “Mr. President, instead of creating jobs for the teeming unemployed youth of Nigeria, your administration has been fleecing and sending them to their early graves, as it happened during the fraudulent immigration recruitment exercise in March 2014 when many innocent youths got death instead of jobs? When will you move from creating phantom jobs to real jobs? These are the issues that are bothering Nigerians and these are the issues they want answers to, instead of engaging in an unprecedented personality-focused campaign ,” the party said. According to the APC, the truth is that the PDP and President Jonathan do not have any answers to those serious questions asked above, and so they have decided to engage in a campaign for election postponement and the instigation of violence to scuttle next month’s general elections. The APC had on Saturday accused the PDP of being responsible for the attacks on President Jonathan’s convoy in Katsina and Bauchi states. They also urged Jonathan and his party to call to order Niger Delta ex- militants who have threatened to wage war against the country if their ‘son’ loses the February 14 presidential elections. Follow NAIJ.COM on Twitter! JiJi.ng – Sell phones, cars, clothes, furniture to real people
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 14:03:01 +0000
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