- The PDP has mocked Vice President Yemi Osinbajo for sharing N10,000 to traders nationwide
- The opposition party said the current action by the vice president is a sign of underemployment
- The party said the action can not happen in a serious country
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organisation has said the current practice by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to go to markets across the country ‘hawking’ N10,000 is a sign of underemployment.
The opposition party berated Osinbajo for the move, saying it this could not have happened in a serious country.
Osinbajo has in the past few months visiting markets across the country, sharing 10,000 each to traders, under the TraderMoni scheme.
Speaking yesterday on Arise News,a spokesperson of PDP’s presidential campaign organisation, Mr. Akin Osuntokun, said sharing of N10,000 would not help the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government in the general elections.
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His words: “Nigerians are not that gullible. Sharing N10,000 in few weeks to the elections will not help this government, unless you are implying that Nigerians are gullible. A country and electorate that vote on that basis has a problem; you campaign on what you have done.
“That is an indication of a vice president who is underemployed. The vice president of a serious country of 180 million people going around markets and motor parks hawking N10,000; is that governance? That is a joke.
“Have you ever heard it in any serious country where the vice president goes from door-to-door to campaign? The vice president of Nigeria - their job is 24 hours, the complexity of Nigeria governance alone. If that is the priority of a vice president - knocking from door-to-door, then, that is an explanation of why the government has failed.”
Osuntokon also said the APC government has served sufficient notice that it has bad faith in the coming election, stressing that the refusal of President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the electoral bill was a good example.
Osuntokun said, “A president that is interested in conducting credible elections, will he be vouching and dancing on the electoral bill? So, you already have the indication of what is ahead. If morning shows the day, what we are seeing is not a preparation to free and fair election,
“If you look at their record in Osun and Ekiti States; Osun State election was practically stolen. So, you don’t give that kind of person the benefit of the doubt.
“At their presidential primary, APC claimed that 14 million voters voted for him. So, you can see that they have already given you work to the answer. If 14 million people can vote for you in a primary, you are already home and dry. That is what they are telling you. It is being pre-rigged, the mentality is being fostered, which is a lie.
“There is no basis for that. We hope for it (free and fair election). We hope for the best, we prepare for the worst.”
He noted that the allegation that the PDP administration mismanaged the country for 16 years was the propaganda of the APC.
“This president has commissioned three projects that were fully paid for by the Jonathan administration before he left; the Abuja-Kaduna railway, the Port Harcourt Airport, and the Abuja Airport. The only part played by this president is only commissioning. But you will never hear this from them,” he said.
He further pointed out that the Buhari administration has been rated by all international corruption rating agencies as worse than the previous government.
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Meanwhile, the PDP Presidential Campaign Organization has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2019 New Year speech as ''pathetically empty.''
The party said the president could not articulate any concrete commitment on any sector of Nigeria during the speech.
In a statement sent to Legit.ng on Tuesday, January 1 by its director, media and publicity, Kola Ologbodiyan, the campaign organisation also said the president could not point to any single achievement he made in the out-going year.
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