PDP disagrees with performance claims by Buhari administration, sees fictions
The leading opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has described all the claims by President Muhammadu Buhari that his administration has done better than the PDP administrations, tagging the claims as fictitious and very hard to see.
In a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbodiyan, in Abuja, PDP recalled that President Buhari had made the claims during his visit to Jigawa State.
PDP averred that “This ridiculous claim, which is completely irreconcilable with the harrowing economic and security realities, has exposed President Buhari as the author of a series of false performance indices and propaganda in the public place, designed to beguile Nigerians ahead of the 2019 elections.
“President Buhari has forgotten that despite the temporary setback of the PDP in the 2015 elections, Nigerians are still aware that during the PDP administration, with our people-oriented policies, our nation was a better place to live.
“Nigerians easily recall that during the PDP tenure, the standard of living and purchasing power of citizens were at their peaks; the private sector flourished; more businesses opened and blossomed thereby providing millions of jobs and Nigerians were more united and secure.
“Painfully, in the space of three years, the Buhari Presidency has reversed all these gains.”
While stressing that it left behind, a robust economy which the Buhari administration had destroyed within the last three years, Ologbondiyan claimed that the President’s consistent global de-marketing of the nation led to the loss of Foreign Direct Investments, jobs and the free fall of the naira from N165/$1USD where the PDP left it in 2015 to N360 to $1USD under his watch.
As at end of business on Thursday, the APC is yet to reply PDP claims.
