By Sunday Etuka, Abuja
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has stated that the President Bola Tinubu Administration’s huge investment in security is already paying off as insurgency, terrorism and other criminal activities have abated significantly.
APC was responding to the concerns raised by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in a
Communique Issued at the end of its 98th Meeting on Thursday in Abuja.
PDP had lambasted the Tinubu-led administration of ill-implemented policies leading to worsening insecurity, harrowing economic hardship, soaring unemployment rate, hugh cost of food and other necessities of life with pervading misery and despondency across the country.
The party also expressed serious apprehensions over the spate of acts of terrorism and violence including the escalated cases of mindless killings, mass abduction of innocent Nigerians and marauding of communities in vanous parts of the country.
It further demanded that the Federal Government should review its policies and programmes stifling the economy with suffocating effect on the lives citizens, therefore, urged the President to immediately rejig his Economic Team to bring in persons of proven integrity and competence without bias and vested interest to assist in repositioning the economy.
In his response, the National Publicity Secretary of APC, Felix Morka, Esq. said, the PDP’s communique issued at the end of its 98th National Executive Committee meeting was nothing short of the hoax wailing of a shambolic party.
APC said, unsurprisingly, the PDP failed to seize the opportunity of its NEC meeting to conduct a thorough examination of institutional and operational maladies that have crippled and turned the party into an unrecognizable shadow of its old self.
Instead, it said, the party voted to devote 8 of 15 paragraphs of its communique to spewing gibberish and casting unbefitting aspersions on the APC.
It said, PDP’s NEC idly alluded to its imagined attempt by APC to “foist a one-party state on our nation”, adding that APC recognizes opposition politics as indispensable to multiparty democracy, and continues to encourage opposition parties to provide credible and viable political alternatives to Nigerians.
“We maintain our long held rejection of the PDP’s attempt to taint our Party with its own sordid historic obsession to operate a one-party state in our country”, APC added.
It said, the President Bola Tinubu-led administration maintains an ironclad commitment to the security and welfare of Nigerians.
“That is the nucleus of the administration’s Renewed Hope Agenda – from the social investment and student loan programmes to the massive economic and infrastructural transformation underway, the administration is working assiduously to improve the quality of life of all Nigerians, and build enduring prosperity for our nation”, it said.
The Party said, “all critical economic indicators are shifting in the positive direction with prognosis for the future looking better than the jaundiced eyes of the PDP can see.
“The PDP’s persistent infantilism, more than anything else, is the clear and present threat to our democracy. Its NEC meeting was no more than an inglorious press conference with no iota of purpose.
“Nigerians clearly understand who is working hard on their behalf and will stand fast with President Tinubu as he continues to win massive progress for all Nigerians. He remains indistractable by the noise pollution of PDP’s tattered drums”, he said.
