PRESIDENCY-2019:APC Replies PDP, Describes Threat As Day-Dreaming

ALL Progressives Congress (APC) has described  the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s threat to take back the presidency in 2019 as baseless and illogical forecasts stating that the country owes gratitude to God for rescuing it from the PDP bad governments for sixteen consecutive years without anything to show for it.

PDP had during the week elected Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, who is widely believed to be a major sponsor of the Islamic terrorist group, Boko Haram which has evidently caused monumental havoc in the northern part of the country leaving thousands of persons dead and uncountable in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps, as its national chairman in controversial circumstances.
The election led to a divide between the Board of Trustees (BoT) and National Executive Council (NEC). Nevertheless, Sheriff has consistently denied the public notion linking him to the Islamic terrorist group.

In his speech in Umuahia, Abia State on Wednesday, the new PDP chairman stated that despite the fact that the party lost power at the centre in 2015 after 16 years, it will take it back in 2019 from the APC government adding that the party would soon release its blueprint in that effect.

In reaction to the report, the National Secretary of APC, Mai Mala Buni, said that Nigerians are hoping that part of its blueprint includes how the PDP and its cronies will return public funds stolen under the PDP’s watch for 16 years. Buni added that Nigerians cannot be naive to opt for a party and group of insensitive citizens who had subjected them to the great pains the APC government is battling to wipe out from the system concluding that PDP has betrayed Nigerians enough.

“Nigerians are aware that the current economic hardship and institutional rot was caused by the PDP’s 16-year misrule and pillage. President Muhammadu Buhari has been working assiduously to correct the PDP’s years of damage and bring about people-centric governance. It is baffling how the PDP expects Nigerians to abandon APC’s smooth sailing ship for a sinking and rudderless PDP ship come 2019.

“The 2015 elections have been won and lost. The priority of the present APC administration is to deliver on election promises made by the party to Nigerians who long desired change of political leadership at the federal level and in many states.

“Happily, Nigerians can look back, with relief and attest that since the APC-led administration took over governance, Nigeria is back on the right track – economically and security-wise – and has taken its right of place among the comity of progressive nations

“The widely-acclaimed job creation, social welfare and inclusion programmes proposed by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration has been well received. The full implementation of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) by the present administration has greatly plugged revenue leakages.

“Nigeria is winning the war against insurgency. In spite of desperate attempts to discredit ongoing anti-corruption efforts, the war against graft is being won,” APC noted.

It would be recalled that the PDP held power in the centre consecutively for 16 years until the present government sent it packing through the last presidential election. Besides, virtually all the names linked to the looting of the treasury which ranges in billions of US Dollars are all chieftains of the party.