The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will need another strategic session in Dubai in order to present a new alternative governance agenda before the 2019 polls.
APC Spokesman, Lanre Issa-Onilu, made the assertion in reply to a statement by PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, urging President Muhammadu Buhari to resign.
Atiku in a communique made on Sunday by his Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, noted that Buhari’s recent assessment of the nation’s economy, in which he stated that it had gone out of control, was enough evidence that the president had failed.
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However, in disagreeing with Atiku, Issa-Onilu said, “It is very amazing that two months into the election, PDP is still not presenting any alternative governance agenda before the people of this country.
“Sadly, the main opposition party appears at a loss as to how to face Nigerians knowing they would have to explain why they so badly mismanaged this country at a period of surplus.”
The APC went on to reveal some of the achievements of the Buhari-led administration, via social media.
In a series of tweets, the party noted that the government has carried out several infrastructural projects and has invested in several social intervention programmes targeted at ordinary Nigerians.
Below is a thread of replies made by the APC in reaction to the PDP’s call for Buhari’s resignation.
Our reaction to another spurious statement by @OfficialPDPNig
2 months into elections, PDP is not presenting any alternative governance agenda before Nigerians. PDP is at a loss how to face Nigerians & explain why they so badly mismanaged the country at a period of surplus
1/6— APC Nigeria (@OfficialAPCNg) December 17, 2018
Rather than focus on its campaign, the only concern of @OfficialPDPNig is whether @OfficialAPCNg has flagged off its campaigns or not. Ofcourse, APC will soon begin strategic engagements with the people. Unlike PDP, we began our campaign immediately @MBuhari resumed office.
2/6— APC Nigeria (@OfficialAPCNg) December 17, 2018
We have spent the last three and half years carrying out massive infrastructural projects in all the 36 states of the country. We have invested heavily in social intervention programmes targeted at the ordinary Nigerians, at a scale never seen before in this country.
3/6— APC Nigeria (@OfficialAPCNg) December 17, 2018
The onslaught against corruption, the lasting solutions being put in place to provide security across our country, the transformation in the agricultural and the solid minerals sectors are the real campaigns that the @OfficialAPCNg government has embarked on since June 2015.
4/6— APC Nigeria (@OfficialAPCNg) December 17, 2018
We understand that @OfficialPDPNig cannot campaign on issues as they have none to present. PDP’s recent attempts to speak to issues have ended in disgrace as it became obvious they base their projections and analyses on fallacious data.
5/6— APC Nigeria (@OfficialAPCNg) December 17, 2018
In effect, @OfficialPDPNig is left with no other option than to resort to sophistry. They obviously need another trip to Dubai. Perhaps, they may try China this time, hoping they would at least get their figures right. – @onailu07 6/6
— APC Nigeria (@OfficialAPCNg) December 17, 2018
