Hehehe...The All Progressives Congress on Sunday accused the outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration of deliberately sabotaging the incoming administration by contriving crises without making any effort to resolve them.
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The party said the Jonathan
administration was leaving behind a fractured economy without
electricity, with no fuel and disgruntled workers on strike over the
non-payment of salaries.
This was contained in a statement issued in Abuja by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
The APC however appealed to Nigerians not
to lose hope despite the daunting challenges currently being faced “in
this atmosphere of contrived chaos, saying help is on the way.”
The Peoples Democratic Party could however not be reached for comments.
Calls to the mobile telephone of the
party’s spokesman, Chief Olisa Metuh, indicated that it was switched
off. A response to a text message sent to him was still being awaited as
of the time of filing this report.
Mohammed said, “In a few days’ time,
President Jonathan will hand over to the President-elect, Muhammadu
Buhari. Never in the history of our country has any government handed
over to another a more distressed country: No electricity, no fuel,
workers are on strike, billions are owed to state and federal workers,
$60bn is being owed in national debt and the economy is virtually
grounded
“Today, Nigerians are roaming the
streets, jerry cans in hand, searching for everything from kerosene to
fuel to diesel to power their homes, keep their vehicles on the road and
keep their businesses going.
“They are paying as much as N300 per
litre for fuel, if at all they can get it. Yet their government is not
saying a word about the situation.”
The APC also said while the Jonathan
administration had “arrogantly told Nigerians that it remains in office
and in power till May 29, all it had been doing is sacking people and
making new appointments as if it had been deprived of the opportunity to
do so in the past six years.”
The party lamented that the outgoing
administration had shown no interest on how to end the fuel scarcity
that had paralysed the socio-economic lives of Nigerians.
“They are not interested in how to raise
electricity production from its unprecedentedly low level of 1,327
megawatts, they are not doing anything to end the strike by blue and
white collar oil workers, or to stop the impending one.
“They say they are in office till May 29,
but they do not care how workers in 18 states, who are owed a total of
N300bn in salaries under their watch or federal workers who are owed
N400bn, will be paid. Yet, they are running a budget of N1tn deficit,”
APC said.
It also alleged that the administration
had deliberately stopped meeting its obligations to oil marketers on
fuel subsidy, which the party put at about N200bn.
The statement observed that if the
current energy crisis was not solved soonest, the telecommunications
sector could even be grounded in a matter of days as service providers
would have neither electricity nor fuel to power their base stations.
“Of course, the aviation sector has
already been left comatose by the fuel crisis. The whole scenario reeks
of sabotage!,” the party said.
The APC explained that if the nation was
being well managed and there was no problem, it would not have embarked
on a campaign for change.
Mohammed said the “APC is ready, willing
and able to begin to address the mammoth challenges facing us as a
nation as soon as we assume office at the centre in a few days’ time.”
He, however, said the party would not
hesitate for a second to keep Nigerians informed of how “we have been
brought to this sorry state, with a view to avoiding such a tragic turn
in the future.”
The party also expressed sadness that the
nation had been on auto pilot for the past several weeks, as the
outgoing administration had shown neither the capacity nor the
willingness “to resolve any of the crises it has contrived and foisted
on the nation.
“This is the most vivid manifestation of
the old saying that literally translates to a departing office holder
defecating on the chair he is vacating,” APC said.
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