APC to PDP: Enough of mudslinging The All Progressives Congress (APC) has challenged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to tell Nigerians how it plans to move from the near zero governance of the past six years of the President Goodluck Jonathan Administration to good and purposeful governance, instead of engaging in perpetual and tiring mudslinging. The party said it believes that next month’s 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. In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said it is time for the PDP to end the muckraking and tell the world how it plans to tackle the worsening insecurity in the land. It said the essence of the sustained campaign of calumny against Gen Muhammadu Buhari by the PDP is to distract the APC from telling Nigerians how it plans to effect the much-needed change in the country. The party said the PDP and President Jonathan should tell Nigerians what happened to the $20 billion missing oil funds amid concerns that the money could have vanished into the ruling party’s slush funds for electioneering campaign. “Nigerians are also asking: 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?” it said. It wondered why soldiers should be sent to fight Boko Haram without the necessary equipment, even though trillions of Naira have been budgeted for the security and defence sector under the president’s watch, and soldiers have to buy fatigue and the wounded among them financing their medical treatment, as some of them said in a CNN interview. “Mr. President, why have you castrated the anti-corruption agencies, rendering them comatose and unable to tackle the runaway corruption under your watch? What signals are you sending to the EFCC, for example, when you picked as your campaign spokesman the same man who is facing corruption charges? Is that a way of telling the EFCC to let the notorious suspect off the hook?” he asked.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:04:04 +0000