The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Monday, said the ruling All Progressives Congress’ (APC) recent attacks on Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, has confirmed its fear that its days were numbered.
PDP claimed the APC has realised that “Nigerians have seen through its lies, subterfuge, falsehood, suppressive policies and crass incompetence in governance.”
The PDP national public secretary, Hon. Debo Ologungaba, stated this while reacting to APC’s response to Governor Makinde’s comments about 2027 elections.
Referring to the state of the country, Makinde, over the weekend, said the 2027 general election was between APC and Nigerians, which elicited a swipe from APC’s national spokesman, Felix Morka, who told the governor to focus on governance, and stop fixating on his presidential ambition.
But, Ologungaba described APC’s comments on Makinde as reckless, insensitive and arrogant, adding that APC thrived and relished in foisting excruciating pain and hardship on Nigerians.
The PDP further claimed that APC is peopled by manipulators who are only out to “grab, snatch and run” with the national patrimony at the expense of citizens.
Opposing APC’s claim, PDP said Governor Makinde is a credible and effective leader with an astonishing record of performance based on the needs of Oyo State peoples.
Ologungaba said, “It is indeed an assault on the sensibility of Nigerians that in the midst of worsening insecurity, biting economic hardship, widespread hunger and starvation, comatose infrastructure, crippled productive sector, weakened currency, closure of millions of businesses with over 36% unemployment rate, hopelessness and general despondency all occasioned by the irresponsible anti-people policies of the APC administration, the APC is living in alternate reality, arrogantly claiming that Nigeria is “on the cusp of prosperity.”
He added that it was preposterous that the APC thought it could continue to hoodwink citizens with lies and harvest of false performance claims when it has failed on all fronts and reversed all the gains made in the 16 years of the PDP in governance.
The opposition party spokesman said under APC’s watch, the once economically thriving nation was turned to the poverty capital of the world, where over 100 million Nigerians were no longer able to afford their daily meals and other basic necessities of life.
“Today, under the APC voodoo economy, the Naira which exchanged for N168 to the Dollar under the PDP now exchanges for almost N2,000 per Dollar, petrol which sold for N87 per liter now sells for over N1,500 in various parts of the country; a bag of rice which sold for N8,000 now sells for over N100,000, a measure of beans which sold for N250 now sells for N3,800 while a measure of garri which sold for N100 now sells for N1,500.
“More distressing is that while Nigerians are experiencing harrowing hardship, corrupt APC leaders are busy looting the nation’s treasury to fund their luxury appetite and consumption.
“It is therefore not surprising that as the day progresses toward 2027, the APC is resorting to manipulation of data, politicization of issues and personal attacks on outspoken Nigerians as being witnessed in its outburst against Governor Makinde.
“Such attacks by the APC cannot fly as Governor Makinde and indeed other PDP governors are massively delivering on their mandates as being witnessed in the astounding infrastructural, human capital and citizen empowerment projects going on in PDP States to the admiration of Nigerians. Indeed PDP States continue to be Oasis of Development compared to APC controlled States.
“The APC should end its shenanigans, accept failure and come to terms with the fact that its lifespan in the face of abysmal failure in governance cannot last beyond February 2027 when the PDP and Nigerians will send it to political oblivion where the APC contraption truly belongs,” Ologunagba stated.