2019: With minus zero scorecard, serial lies, you can’t win election, PDP tells APC

Ahead of the 2019 general elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lampooned the Federal Government led by the All Progressives Congress (APC) accusing it of having a zero scorecard.

It said with the zero achievement and “serial lies and blame game,” the party and government cannot win the confidence of voters in 2019.

PDP stated this in a statement by its national publicity secretary, Dayo Adeyeye, signed and released decrying the APC’s alleged “serial lies and blame game” against the PDP since its assumption of power about two years ago.

Part of the statement read, “The PDP is amazed over some frivolous claims credited to certain leaders of the Ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in which they expressed confidence that the party’s scorecard in 2019 will be that it cleared the PDP’s mess.

“We ask, how can a minus zero scorecard translate to confidence for winning elections? How convenient! It’s therefore very obvious that the APC is still stuck with its serial lies and blame game against the PDP since it assumed power more than two years ago.

“Nigerians are already embittered and will not have a repeat of it in 2019; and we join them to say it is enough.

“In one of the APC leaders’ haughty and empty boasts, they referred to the Nigerian economy as decadent before APC took over from the PDP in 2015 among other narrow minded claims they made… We want to state emphatically that the APC’s abysmal failure will indeed be the PDP’s scoring points in 2019 given that the remaining one year plus will make no difference to the APC’s incompetence and crass ineptitude in political, democratic and public governance.

“We promise to continue shielding the unsuspecting public from the APC’s sworn deception. On a second thought though, it appears Nigeria is being ruled by the APC from her status in 1983; otherwise, this plethora of lies against evidence-based achievements of the PDP in the entire sector wouldn’t have arisen.

“We wish to specifically note one other outrageous claim by these leaders, that the APC has recorded huge success in the ‘Agricultural Sector’ – in crops such as: rice and grains; and for tubers like, cassava and yam by next year. Indeed, this is absurd and a loquacious claim as there is no evidence, except increased hunger and frustrations on Nigerians daily.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the PDP did surpass the APC’s imaginations of growth in agricultural sector especially, in the rice and cassava productions that they made boast of.”
Comparing achievements made in the agricultural sector under PDP and present APC administration Adeyeye said,

“A bag of rice sold for N8, 000 while under this APC, its cost is almost 3 times more. Also, thirteen new private sector mills were established to buy and process up to 240 metric tons of rice. We sponsored 50 young Nigerian youths in a 5-month training programme on rice production to Kenya and enforced strict measures on importers of rice to encourage local production.

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“In this Sector, we provided job opportunities, especially, for teeming youths but now under the APC, there are about 5 million jobs lost. Equally, these men claimed to rebuilding the ruins of the economy by creating an economy that is dependent on what Nigerians produce that will impact on the people of the country. Wao! When and how? You can only give what you have!

“Let us further remind the APC leaders that they inherited a Nigerian economy that was growing consistently at an average of seven per cent annually for 10 years which General Muhammadu Buhari admitted to in Chattam House in February 2015; and she was the number 1 economy in Africa valued at over $500 million USD., and also the number 1 foreign investment destination (FDI).

“While we wait for the fizzling of this false party, the APC in 2019, we want to pray it to show mercy on Nigerians by achieving at least 20 per cent of its jumbo promises which are too numerous to mention. We wish to re-iterate that the so called ‘corruption war’ is already a failure as well as other facets of governance.”

 

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