On Sunday in Abuja, the Presidency retaliated against the Peoples Democratic Party Governors Forum for declaring the All Progressives Congress ineligible to run in the 2023 general election.
It also accused governors of engaging in divisive and divisive politics, claiming that the country gains nothing from the PDP's "gimmick."
The Presidency further accused the main opposition party's politicians of "robbing the NNPC," failing to pay into the Federation Account on a regular basis, and saying that "in the final year of PDP misrule, $20 billion was simply found missing."
“These people, who play politics of division and hate, create communal disturbances, need to change…check the facts and leave the politics: What does the country get with this kind of gimmick?” a statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said.
On Wednesday, March 23, 2023, the opposition governors, after its regular meeting at the Umuobiakwa country home of its Vice-chairman and Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, passed the pejorative verdict on the APC-led regime of President Muhammadu Buhari, saying that the governing party has become “uncaring and a menace to Nigerians”.
The Forum also expressed shock that “in the face of these statistics of complete failure in all ramifications and areas, the APC still wants to be on the ballot in 2023”.
It, therefore, advised Nigerians to reject the APC if it dares to appear in the 2023 polls saying “It is impossible for a party so disorganised to offer good governance to the people of Nigeria”.
But the Presidency, in a statement titled ‘Issues from the PDP fantasy communique from Umuahia,’ accused the main opposition of trying to “cover up the serial and criminal failures of its long and damaging period in office, which the Muhammadu Buhari regime and All Progressives Congress have strived these past seven years to repair.”
Reminiscing the PDP years, it said “We cannot forget under PDP, the nation had an army full of phantom soldiers whose pay went to PDP politicians’ pockets while our under-resourced real soldiers died in the fight against terrorist insurgents and our international allies refused to supply Nigeria kit and military aid.
“We cannot ignore how PDP politicians sought—and continue to seek—to inflame ethnic and religious tensions by refusing to even proffer a solution to the herder-farmer clashes which became most prevalent under their misrule.
“We will always remember how PDP politicians intentionally encouraged and exploited the black market in currency exchange to convert ill-gotten gains to foreign currency and undermine our national currency, then spirited their funds abroad in their billions and into foreign bank accounts.”
The Presidency, on the other hand, claimed that the Army is well-equipped with fighter jets and other armaments under the APC, that Boko Haram is being pushed from every inch of Nigerian territory, and that ISWAP's leader was killed in a Nigerian airstrike."Now that the APC has taken control of the government, there are ranches on federal and state land that are eager to be established."
Clashes are less frequent.
People's lives are saved, and their livelihoods are improved.
"Today, with the APC, we support our national currency; we have achieved self-sufficiency in rice and fertilizer production; we refuse to allow greedy politicians and businesses to hide their money overseas, and instead work to establish an economy for all Nigerians."
It also accused the main opposition of "robbing the NNPC," accusing them of constantly failing to deliver.
Shehu’s statement also knocked the Governors who signed the Communique saying “Who would trust such people with the running of our country? Who can believe a word these people say, as they looked outwardly stylish but harrowed by power-sharing and other troubles inwardly?
“These people, who play politics of division and hate, create communal disturbances, need to change. Check the facts and leave the politics: What does the country get with this kind of gimmick?”
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