A member of the PDP Board of Trustees, Chief Ebenezer Babatope says President Muhammadu Buhari and other APC leaders should admit they are incapable of tackling the problems confronting the nation.
He said that although the All Progressives Congress made many promises before gaining power in 2015, the party appeared to have gone to sleep since then.
Babatope said insecurity and many other challenges confronting the nation would have been laid to rest if the APC built on the foundation laid by the Peoples Democratic Party.
The ex-minister said that claims that the previous PDP governments laid the foundation for the problems were not entirely correct.
The PDP chieftain said the APC’s constant resort to excuses and blame game showed that the party has failed.
“Although some of these problems might have started rearing their heads when former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, and Goodluck Jonathan were in office, but they were not as grave as what we have today.
“Then even during that period, both Obasanjo, and Jonathan organized national conferences to address some of these challenges.
“These conferences including 2014 national confab made some recommendations on the way out of the quagmire, and the way forward for us as a nation but this APC led government has not deemed it fit to implement any of those recommendations.
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“Up till now, the report of 2014 confab has been gathering dust. Why Buhari and his party APC have not deemed it fit to implement that confab’s report still baffles not only me but millions of Nigerians.
“The report deals with so many issues affecting the polity including restructuring which many are clamouring for now.
“So why is APC, a party that promised Nigerians restructuring in its manifesto afraid of implementing the 2014 confab report? This is to tell Nigerians that APC is not sincere on restructuring. It is obvious that many people in APC want the status quo to remain.
“Then why should APC and its apologists be giving excuses? Did they not promise Nigerians to tackle these problems if Nigerians voted them into office?
“Now that they are there, and are now seemingly being overwhelmed by these challenges, Buhari and APC leaders should admit that they’ve failed. They were not elected into office to be giving excuses. Giving excuses is an admission of failure,” Babatope said.
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