‘Buhari has done what you could not do in 16 years’ – APC confronts PDP

Nigeria’s ruling party, All Progressives Congress(APC) has emphatically revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari has greater achievements than the past administration, especially towards the eradication of poverty and fight against corruption in the country.

This comes after, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),  berates President Muhammadu Buhari, for his promises to foreign envoys.

Recall Daily Times Nigeria reports in a statement on Wednesday that the PDP, condemned Buhari for making “empty promises” to foreign envoys while his “three cardinal undertaking of ending insurgency and insecurity, fighting corruption by having and improving on the economy” to Nigerians are yet to be kept after five years in government.

Meanwhile, dismissing Mr Buhari’s listed nine priorities for the next three years in office to the foreign envoy as ‘fake promises’, PDP maintained that the current administration has worsened Nigerians’ conditions, compared to the way it was.

“Instead of any improvement, the Buhari administration had only wrecked our economy and turned our once prosperous nation into the poverty capital of the world with so much hardship hunger and starvation, escalated unemployment, high cost of food, reduced life expectancy, high morbidity rate and collapsed infrastructure to the extent that Nigerians now resort to suicide and slavery abroad as options,” the PDP’s spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, had alleged.

However, in its reaction issued Wednesday night, the APC said it has resigned from joining issues with the main opposition, whose 16 years rule, it said, was characterized by “voodoo economics, abandoned projects, institutionalised corruption among other frauds.”

Despite the growing number of yet to be answered graft cases against members of the current administration, the party’s deputy national spokesperson, Yekini Nabena, insisted that Buhari-led administration has fought corruption to its minimum and established the country as a better investment destination.

“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(s) being accounted for? Yes. With our steady climb in the global ease of doing business index, is Nigeria a profitable investment destination? Yes,” Mr. Nabena said.