The All Progressives Congress, APC, has reacted to the press conference organised by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Sunday in Abuja, where it said the ruling party is losing direction and has become a “bad change”.
PDP’s spokesman, Olisa Metuh, had addressed journalists on Sunday and said President Muhammadu Buhari disgraced Nigeria during his visit to the United States last week.
But in response, the APC National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, in a statement issued on Sunday in Lagos, said the opposition party is confused and constituting nuisance.
“Today’s statement is the most tortuous yet by the PDP and, honestly, sounds more like a compendium of beer parlour gossips and side talks than a serious criticism of a sitting government,” the APC said in the statement.
“To be in opposition does not mean you have to constitute yourself to a nuisance by rushing to the press with all sorts of hot air statements. It is the quality, rather than the frequency, of your interventions that makes you relevant as an opposition in a democracy,” the party further said.
It also said, “We can only say that we have been justified, and indeed prescient, in our earlier offer to organize a crash course for Olisa Metuh so that he can more effectively perform his role as the spokesman of the main opposition party.”
According to Mohammed, “Those who thought we were joking with that offer can now see that indeed, Mr Metuh is seriously in need of some form of coaching on his new role.”
“It is worth noting that even the leader of the world’s foremost democracy, President Barack Obama, said that much during the recent visit to the US of President Buhari, when he described him (Buhari) as a man of integrity with a clear agenda.”
The party noted that the President is working hard every day in the priority areas of tackling security and corruption, rebooting the economy to provide jobs for our teeming youths and generally to restore good governance.
“We know that the PDP is terrified by the expose of how the Federal Government it led has looted the treasury and created an environment for impunity to thrive, as well as the fate that will befall those who were part of the show of shame and disgust,” the statement said.
Concluding, the party assured “Nigerians that this government will not interfere with the work of the security and anti-corruption agencies, and also that under the Buhari Administration, only the guilty needs to be afraid.”
The party declared that, “No amount of mumbo jumbo from the PDP will stop the Buhari administration from its tough but inevitable task of restoring Nigeria’s lost glory.”
