APC Bombs PDP Over Attack On Buhari’s 2nd Term Priorities

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has berated the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for rubbishing President Muhammadu Buhari’s nine-priority focus areas for his second-term.

Recall that Buhari, while receiving Letters of Credence from Ambassadors/High Commissioners of eight countries at the State House, listed nine priority areas including access to quality education, health care and enhanced productivity.

“Build a thriving and sustainable economy; enhance social inclusion and reduce poverty; enlarge agricultural output for food security and export; attain energy sufficiency in power and petroleum products and expand transport and other infrastructural development.

“Expand business growth, entrepreneurship and industrialization; expand access to quality education, affordable healthcare and productivity of Nigerians; build a system to fight corruption, improve governance and create social cohesion; and improve security for all,” he stated.

Reacting to Buhari’s comment, the PDP said President Muhammadu Buhari was still campaigning after he won the 2019 election.

According to the party, it is tragic that the president who can no longer face Nigerians due to his unfulfilled promises, now seeks a face-saving measure of presenting yet a fresh list of vacuous agenda to foreign envoys who are already aware of the failures of his government.

But in a swift response on Wednesday night, the APC in a statement its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, said the PDP has chosen to dwell on its ignominious past and practices where voodoo economics, abandoned projects, institutionalised corruption among other frauds were the order of the day.

The APC said: “One thing is clear, we are reminded why the PDP should never be allowed to direct the country’s affairs again.

“Under the President Buhari-led APC government, is Nigeria Africa’s largest economy? Yes. Are we beginning to eat what we grow? Yes. Have we achieved a sustainable petroleum pricing template? Yes. Is institutionalised corruption and impunity still the norm? No. Is money spent on ongoing infrastructure project being accounted for? Yes. With our steady climb in the global ease of doing business index, is Nigeria a profitable investment destination? Yes.

“For us in the APC, we will join well-meaning Nigerians in supporting and ensuring the achievements of President Buhari’s priority areas which will see among others, improved access to quality education, affordable health care, enhanced productivity, a thriving and sustainable economy, enhanced social inclusion and poverty reduction, enlarged agricultural output, energy sufficiency in power and petroleum products, expanded transport and other infrastructural development, business growth, entrepreneurship and industrialisation, fight against corruption, improved governance, social cohesion and improved security for all.

“Nigerians will rather look with pride as newly constructed and launched rail services pass through their towns and upgraded airports that dot many state capitals. While there remains many more to do, we are definitely on the right trajectory of growth and development under the President Buhari government.”