The All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday said the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) cannot be able to provide any worthwhile opposition to the Federal Government if its spokesman continued to issue empty statements.
The party, in a statement issued in Lagos yesterday by its national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, lamented that by its fumbling antics, the former ruling party in the country seemed not to have recovered from hallucinations of post-electoral defeat it suffered early this year.
APC said, “Today’s statement is the most tortuous yet by the PDP and honestly, it sounds more like a compendium of beer parlour gossips and side talks than a serious criticism of a sitting government.
“To be in opposition does not mean you have to constitute yourself to a nuisance by rushing to the press with all sorts of hot air statements. It is the quality, rather than the frequency, of your interventions that makes you relevant as an opposition in a democracy.”
It said that in the light of the above, the APC will not dignify the latest in a series of confused statements by the PDP with any response.
“We can only say that we have been justified, and indeed prescient, in our earlier offer to organise a crash course for Olisa Metuh so that he can more effectively perform his role as the spokesman of the main opposition party.
“Those who thought we were joking with that offer can now see that indeed, Mr. Metuh is seriously in need of some form of coaching on his new role,’’ APC said.
The party said that for the record, no government in Nigeria’s recent history has been as focused and systematic as the one headed by President Muhammadu Buhari in restoring good governance, especially coming after the worst stretch of governance, lasting all of 16 years, by the immoral and reckless PDP.
He said, “It is worth noting that even the leader of the world’s foremost democracy, President Barack Obama, said that much during the recent visit to the US of President Buhari, when he described him as a man of integrity with a clear agenda.
“President Buhari is working hard everyday in the priority areas of tackling security and corruption, rebooting the economy to provide jobs for our teeming youths and generally to restore good governance.
We are sorry for those who are too blind with hatred to see this.”
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