A member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Oladimeji Fabiyi, has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government of failing Nigerians.
He made the claim on Wednesday while appraising the performance of the ruling party, about 300 days to the general elections.
Fabiyi noted that the APC has performed below expectation in the key areas of economy, security and the war against corruption, compared to what it told the people it would achieve in 2015.
“What Nigerians demanded of you is simply good governance,” he said during his appearance on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily.
“In the area of infrastructural development, the rail the APC is taking credit for was a baby of the PDP; you keep hinging on corruption and even the template for fighting corruption is faulty from day one,” he added.
The PDP member further accused the APC government of plunging the nation into recession, stressing that the party brought the country backward since they took over power.
He claimed the economic situation was so bad for the people that Nigerians have become beggars on the streets while businesses were reportedly packing up.
“What have they (APC) done differently? I know people that ordinarily will come around and assist others, but they can’t do it anymore; they’ve not done anything differently, they have taken us backwards,” Fabiyi insisted.
An APC Member, Jasper Azuatalam, swiftly dismissed the claims by the member of the opposition party, saying it was the PDP who achieved nothing in 16 years.
He stressed that government is a continuous process and the APC and Buhari led government have shown responsibility.
Azuatalam noted that it would be absurd for the present government to abandon the uncompleted projects of the previous government.
He, however, said, “When there is a project completed, PDP will say ‘we started it’, and what did you complete for 16 years and how suddenly has this government started completing everything within two years and 10 months?
On the issue of recession, the APC member stated that the efforts of the APC government were so obvious to the people that the inflation and interest rates have been dropping consistently since last year.
He also recalled that economists had predicted recession during the past administration, maintaining that President Muhammadu Buhari’s government deserved to the praised for bringing the nation out of recession.
