The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has no moral basis, according to the All Progressives Congress (APC), to charge it with dragging down the nation’s economy.
The APC’s national press secretary, Felix Morka, made this claim in a statement on Thursday in response to remarks attributed to PDP governors following their meeting.
The PDP governors charged that the APC-led administration was ruining the nation’s economy during a meeting held in Enugu on July 17.
The claim was made by the governors during their meeting regarding the recent Supreme Court decision that gave local government units (LGAs) nationwide financial autonomy.
The APC expressed concern over the PDP governors’ remarks, even as it described the verdict as the most significant development in the nation’s democratic change since 1999.
It is a tragic irony that PDP governors, who had gathered to talk about the recently achieved financial autonomy of local governments, concluded by politically blaming the APC government of having carried out a reform that the PDP had not.
The APC statement stated, “The reform the PDP could not initiate, let alone deliver in its desolate 16 years in government.”
It further stated that the PDP governors’ attitude made it clear that they did not comprehend their role or duty in our system of governance.
The APC claims that the PDP governors lack awareness of how important it is for them to defend the resources they have as state executives. For the benefit of their people, it stated, they were expected to develop and strengthen their home economies.
APC continued, saying that PDP governors continued to talk and act as executive freeloaders and idle spectators rather than making efforts to better the status of their people.
The ruling party pointed out that the governors held their administration accountable for everything, including for not providing their citizens with even the most basic services.
For instance, Delta State, which has been under PDP rule since 1999, receives the most amount of federal funding nationwide, according to the statement. “The PDP governors hurdled together, many of whom have neglected to pay their workers the legal minimum wage.”
The statement went on, “These are the same governors who publicly declared a few weeks ago that they could not afford to pay the proposed new minimum wage because of their employees.”
The statement said that the PDP had not constructed anything during its 16 years in power that would live on or be destroyed, and that the APC-led government had just committed itself to cleaning up the mess it had made.
Numerous road projects in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are only now being completed and put into service by the APC-led administration through the Minister of the FCT. The long-term benefits of President Tinubu’s APC administration’s policies are certain since they will happen soon.
The ruling party declared that the “enduring prosperity they will bring to all Nigerians will pale into insignificance in comparison to the transient hardship occasioned by inevitable corrective policies.”
