The Presidency says the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has gotten it wrong when after its National Executive Council, NEC meeting it accused the All Progressives Congress, APC and President Bola Tinubu, of perceived inadequacies when it reigned for 16 years, until it was shoved out of power in 2015.
Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga in a statement said “the party’s NEC members must have been inhabiting another planet, as all the accusations contradicted the reality on ground and completely ignored the stellar achievements recorded by the Tinubu administration in less than one year.”
He said “Unlike the PDP administration of 16 years, the Tinubu administration has been confronting the problems of our country headlong, moving for an audacious reset that will firmly put our country on a solid economic pedestal.”
Onanuga added that the “administration is targeting a higher growth with its plans to embark on audacious infrastructure projects, such as the Badagry-Sokoto Highway and the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway and the latter has attracted unwarranted attack by one of the PDP leaders, blinded by the huge economic benefits of the highway project.”
Adding that it “was surprising that the PDP under whose watch Boko Haram was born in 2009 and worse of all, which looted the billions of dollars earmarked to equip our Armed Forces and the police, could so unabashedly blame the Tinubu administration for what it wrongly termed increasing spate of terrorism and banditry.”
The Presidential aide advised the PDP to harmonise its home first, rather than accusing President Tinubu of trying to entrench one-party state.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
