Wednesday's statement issued by the All Progressives
Congress (APC) accusing President Goodluck Jonathan of
impunity and failure as a desperate effusion of noise,
fury and falsehood, which are now the well-known
trademark of the Nigerian equivalent of the ancient
"Athenian thirty tyrants", who would not mind bringing
the nation to its knees in quest for power.
"The APC is trading in its best merchandise – falsehood, deceit,
blackmail, sheer pernicious propaganda. This political
party, the APC, is the centrifuge of violence in Nigeria,
and like the thirty tyrants in the ancient Athens, is
desperately looking for excuses to truncate democracy
and ruin our collective destiny but Nigerians are not
ready to dig in with them", PDP said.
The ruling party in a statement by its National Publicity
Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, said that it was on record
that no administration in the recent history of Nigeria
achieved in its first three years, up to what President
Jonathan has so far achieved despite unprecedented
security challenges.
The statement reads: "In the past three years, the
Jonathan administration has squarely tackled massive
infrastructural development with thousands of kilometers
of federal roads and bridges either constructed,
reconstructed or rehabilitated while the long forgotten
rail system is now steaming back to life with modern
coaches even as expansion of network is on-going.
Various measures for air safety also took centre stage
with the vast expansion and rehabilitation of facilities at
all federal airports in a gale of efforts that changed the
face of the nation's aviation industry in less three years.
"Transformation also touched critical infrastructures in
Agricultural Transformation Project where over six million
farmers have been empowered and in housing where
the Nigerian Mortgage Refinance is anchoring a new
dimension in mass affordable shelter. In industry and
investment, an investment friendly environment has
been created, effective wealth creation mechanism
ensured and competent indigenous entrepreneurs now,
reaping the benefits and taking centre stage in the
global market competition. The course of in-flowing
investments has also spurred indigenous manufacturing,
even in automobiles, hitherto thought impossible.
"The Almajiri education system in the North is a creation
of the Jonathan administration just like the YouWin and
SURE-P projects whose excels in the improvement of the
Nigerian living standard is obvious. The unbundling of
the PHCH is simultaneously going on with accompanying
investment drive to ensure stability in generation and
supply while the nation has also been witnessing
stability in supply and pricing of petroleum products. The
same goes for the expansion of the inland water ways.
"Alas, the votes now count. A nation formerly a b*tt of
international criticism for flawed elections has since 2011
been receiving worldwide accolades for credible conduct
of elections. One man , one vote which ensured the
triumph of the will of the people first in Edo, Ondo,
Anambra all won by the opposition political parties also
ensured a credible Ekiti governorship poll where
Governor Fayemi did not only accept his defeat as a clear
verdict of Ekiti people but congratulated the victorious
PDP candidate. What a wacko song then is Fayemi's
party, the APC now treating the nation to?
"Give the people, a credible electoral system and every
other shall fall in place. This, the President has done. The
APC must therefore like other well-meaning Nigerians
commend the President for this feat which it has been
unwilling to allow in its enclave as Nigerians have seen in
the conduct of council elections in Lagos, Ogun, Osun
and Edo States.
"No doubt the APC is afraid and bitter that its
prematurely celebrated electoral fortunes, its vaunted
popularity to win the 2015 election is being gradually
smashed to its face as mere illusion. It lost Ekiti to
popular votes and is afraid that in Osun where its
divisive ideology has created an acrimonious division in
its educational system amidst non-performance in other
sectors, it will also fall, hence must heap the blame on
President Jonathan. The APC is clearly looking for
grounds for fancied violence and subsequent truncation
of democracy.
"Corruption, this corruption, a regular sing song of the
APC, a party that has deliberately grown forgetful of the
fact that corruption walks on four in the states under its
control and that in its topmost leadership, the Emperor
of Bourdilion, lies the pantheon of corruption. The people
of Ekiti grew wiser and shook off a regime of internal
colonialism, of high taxation, of outrageous contract
pricing and of the overlordship of greed of few over their
common wealth. Nigerians know where the moth of
corruption is being bred.
"On the contrary, the Freedom of Information Act meant
to arm every Nigerian in fight against corruption, which
Lagos, the APC flagship is refusing to domesticate till
today, was in the cooler for nearly a decade until
President Jonathan dusted it and passed same into law.
In speech, in action and in body language, President
Jonathan has left nobody in doubt of his principled stand
on the rule of law and transparency and only in the
narrow world of mischief of the APC does this matter
less".
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