According to DAILY POST’S Report, All Progressives Congress (APC) has lambasted the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) following a meeting of PDP governors in Enugu on Wednesday. ..Read Full Article
The APC accused the opposition party’s governors of being “barefaced heirs of a legacy of sleaze and ruin, morally and politically unfit to point fingers.”
The PDP governors had met to discuss the recent Supreme Court decision granting financial autonomy to local government councils, as well as the country’s economic challenges, including high food inflation.
However, the APC was not impressed, with the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, issuing a strongly worded statement in response.
Morka said the PDP governors “do not understand the seriousness of the responsibility that they bear as chief executives of their states to justify the resources at their disposal to build and bolster their domestic economies for the good of their people.”
Instead, he claimed, they “speak and carry on as idle spectators and executive free-loaders while blaming the federal government for everything, including their spectacular failure to accomplish the most elementary service delivery to their people.”
The APC pointed to the example of Delta State, governed by the PDP since 1999, as the “highest recipient of federal allocation in the country but is emblematic of PDP’s acute corruption, misrule and utter hopelessness, with piles of backlogs of unpaid salaries and pensions to hardworking citizens of the state.”
Furthermore, the APC statement criticized the PDP governors for “accusing the President Bola Tinubu-led administration of delay in approving a new minimum wage for workers,” despite many of them “having failed to pay the legal minimum wage to their workers.”
The APC went on to praise the performance of the APC-led administration, particularly the work of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Barr. Nyesom Wike, who is “only now completing and commissioning numerous road projects in the FCT awarded, paid for as far back as 2003 and 2010 but recklessly abandoned by successive PDP administrations.”
The party also blamed the PDP’s “petroleum subsidy regime and parallel foreign exchange regimes” for “the reckless pillaging of our commonwealth” that “blew a gaping hole in the nation’s economy.”
The APC stated that the “transient hardship occasioned by inevitable corrective policies will pale into insignificance in comparison to the enduring prosperity they will bring to all Nigerians.”
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