- The APC says those who were roundly rejected by Nigerians in 2015 for their corruption, impunity, and maladministration are trying to launch themselves back into reckoning
- Malam Lanre Issa-Onilu, the APC national publicity secretary, notes that the actions of these political elements are disruptive to the course of progress, being vigorously pursued by the Buhari-led administration
- Issa-Onilu says some persons constituted themselves into a stumbling-block in the determined efforts of the APC to deliver effective governance in Nigeria
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has alleged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its associates are using their ill-gotten wealth to pervert justice, create a state of insecurity, propagate falsehood and promote dissent in the country.
Malam Lanre Issa-Onilu, the APC national publicity secretary, made the allegation at a news conference on Tuesday in Abuja, on January 1, where he urged Nigerians to keep faith with the President Muhamadu Buhari-led administration and reject the PDP.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the APC said its administration was doing its best to guarantees stability, economic buoyancy, world class infrastructure, reward for hard work and for honesty in Nigeria
The ruling party said the 2018 was significant to the APC as the party witnessed attempts by alleged associates in the PDP to launch themselves back into reckoning.
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"As the ruling party on a rescue mission, we call on all well-meaning people of Nigeria to keep the faith with the administration, the APC said.
“The graphs are on the positive upward swing, Buhari is laying a solid foundation for a prosperous future, we must endure and be steadfast.
“We have already turned the corner, leaving behind the years of the locusts under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
“We are headed towards a future that guarantees stability, economic buoyancy, world class infrastructure, reward for hard work and for honesty, and the security of our nation.
“The PDP remains our collective national vomit which we must never go back to.’’
The APC spokesperson said those who were roundly rejected by Nigerians in 2015 for their grievous crimes of corruption, impunity, and maladministration struggled have to rise up from the dungeon the people had dumped them.
“They were fierce and reckless in their wicked attempt to return to power to continue their primitive appropriation of our commonwealth for themselves and their immediate family."
He stated that the actions of these elements were disruptive to the course of progress, being vigorously pursued by the Buhari-led administration.
Issa-Onilu added that 2018 particularly was a tough year for the APC government as it had to confront the “monsters” who had found their way into the party during the merger in 2014.
He further added that the said monsters pretended to have cured themselves of their insatiable greed and callous selfish disposition while joining the APC.
He stressed that enemies of the country, however, found out that the beats had changed and their strenuous efforts to steer the APC administration towards their ignominious ways, as they practiced under PDP, had become impossible under Buhari.
He added that predictably, the forces of evil finally gravitated towards themselves and were now ensconced in their wicked nest, called the PDP.
“Unfortunately, they did a lot of damage to our determined efforts in the last three and half years, by constituting themselves into a stumbling-block,” the APC spokesman said.
This, he said, they did using their vantage position in government in conjunction with their associates outside government.
He added that their associates were deploying ill-gotten wealth to pervert justice, create a state of insecurity, propagate falsehood and promote dissent.
Issa-Onilu said it was a callous strategy design to pull the wool over the eyes of Nigerians.
He maintained that as frustrating as their activities were in 2018, they met more than their match in Buhari, adding that their Dubai-made strategy collapsed like a pack of cards.
He alleged that the PDP, led by its presidential candidate, Abubakar Atiku paid huge sums of money to some foreign con men in Dubai who posed as strategists.
Their job Issa-Onilu said was to spurn daily fake news and make spurious and unsubstantiated allegations against Buhari, his family members, the vice president, and APC national chairman.
He said they were also paid to make allegations against notable government officials, and public institutions to deceive Nigerians.
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“The reality has dawned on the fortune seekers in PDP that it is not possible to tag a label of corruption on Buhari as a de-marketing strategy.
“Neither is it possible to campaign based on issues of governance as the achievements of this administration have shown.
“It is obvious that the PDP has found itself in a fix, many in the leadership of the main opposition party are finding it difficult to identify with a character like Atiku,” he said.
Issa-Onilu said it was worthy of note that a few of the PDP leaders, with some residual credibility, were battling with their conscience.
This, he said, was especially so as they were increasingly becoming uncomfortable with the level of immorality that underlines the PDP’s politics.
The APC spokesman said that anyone with a modicum of decency would not be proud of the reputation of PDP, noting that its campaign had failed to present any programme to Nigerians.
He added that the PDP campaign had become a stillborn, saying that like a lion, it roared, but it didn’t last.
“It has joyfully ended up as the bleating of a goat,” Issa-Onilu said.
He stressed that the PDP had nothing to offer Nigerians and had no reason to return to power, adding that its return to power would amount to returning Nigeria to the past.
“The past when our collective wealth was being stolen by a few wicked elites, the past when monies meant for the development of our economy were being pocketed.
“The past when no road, no railway, and no power plant was ever completed, even though huge sums of money were being allocated and released every year.
“The past when labour was stripped of dignity; when the harder you worked, the poorer you became.
“The past when people with no defined business raked in billions of dollars from our economy, acquiring mansions as if they were buying shoes they never had while growing up,” he said.
He recalled that while the PDP was in government, the country was a joke among the comity of nations and dubious characters were acquiring fleet of private jets.
He added that it was heart-warming to see the PDP campaign crash-land before it reached any threatening altitude.
Issa-Onilu said it has become apparent that PDP was technically out of the race before the election start.
This, the APC spokesman said, was so considering the level of disdain and apathy being demonstrated by the voters across the country towards the party.
Meanwhile, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that former Anambra state governor and vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Peter Obi is not a saint.
Vanguard reports that Obasanjo said this during the 2018 Ukpor Day.
According to Obasanjo, Obi could not be a saint because mortals cannot be one except if the person is dead and lives in heaven.
The former Nigerian leader noted that saints live in heaven and as such, saintly attributes could not be granted to mortals. However, Obasanjo said that among Nigerian politicians, Obi should be held out as an example, describing the former governor as 'a bundle of integrity'.
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