Lagos Metro Line Project: Buhari’s Supporters Accuse PDP Of Diverting Attention

Supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari have described as sheer hypocrisy the claim by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that Buhari’s cancellation of the Lagos Metroline project in 1984 as being responsible for the transportation crisis in Lagos.

The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) described the PDP’s comment as an audacious move by the former ruling party to cover up its neglect of the country’s former capital city between 1999 and 2015 through its blatant refusal to provide any major presence in the State.

In a statement signed by its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary Cassidy Madueke, BMO said PDP has again exposed itself as an opportunistic group with a penchant for half truths to score political points.

“It is no longer news that PDP has a  predilection to divert attention from its 16 years of misrule and the negative impact on contemporary events.

“The latest is yet another attempt by the former ruling party to blur the lines of history in order to present itself as a party of saints, contrary to what a majority of Nigerians know it to be.

“In its usual manner, after accusing President Buhari of stopping Lagos from having what it described as a modern transport system, PDP went ahead to insinuate that his administration is not prepared to grant the state a special status.

“Is this not the same PDP that held sway at the federal level, during which it had almost total control of the federal legislature for 16 years, but did practically nothing for Lagos and its people.

“Nigerians should ask PDP elements where they were when former President Olusegun Obasanjo held on to the statutory allocations of the state when Asiwaju Bola Tinubu was governor.

“But in case they forgot, we wish to remind them that their spokesman  Kola Ologbodiyan was a correspondent in the Governor’s office at the time, and he probably wrote scathing reports about the attitude of the party he is now defending at all costs today.

“We also want Nigerians to ask PDP and its leaders why PDP failed to grant Lagos a special status in 16 years, the same thing they are now accusing President Buhari of not doing in four years.”

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