PDP To Jega: Don’t Provoke Nigerians By Cleaning Up Buhari, APC

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cautioned former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, not to further infuriate Nigerians with his allreged attempt in trying to polish the Muhammadu Buhari administration after his recent appointment as chancellor of the University of Jos.

The PDP’s reaction followed Jega’s assertion that the PDP and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC were birds of the same feather who do not deserve the sympathy of Nigerians.

The PDP while noting what it described was the role Jega played in birthing the Buhari led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration said that the PDP’s performance in government could not in any way be compared to the “unbearable devastation the APC has brought to our nation in a space of six years.”

In the statement issued by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondinyan, the PDP said:

“The PDP asserts that trying to compare the incompetent and decadent APC to the highly productive and development-oriented PDP is an unpardonable disservice to our nation and calls to question the sense of judgment of Profession Jega.

“The PDP further holds as worrisome that Prof. Jega, who only recently and rightly so, described the APC and the Buhari administration as a failure, is now attempting an image laundering with such a warped comparison, just a few weeks after he was offered a juicy appointment as Chairman of Governing Council of University of Jos by President Buhari.

“Perhaps the Professor needs to be reminded of how the PDP worked hard to revamp our nation’s economy, paid off our huge foreign debts and went ahead to grow the economy to become the largest investment hub in Africa as well as one of the fastest growing economies in the world, with Fitch B+ rating; only for the APC to wreck the economy and turn our nation into the world poverty capital and a debtor country in a space of six years.

“Today, under the APC and Buhari, these gains have been wrecked with massive closure of businesses, which saw over 60 million Nigerians losing their means of livelihood, with alarming 33.3 percent unemployment rate and over 82.9 million more and about 25 million families not being able to afford their daily meals as our country ranks 98th out of 107 in Global Hunger Index, due to the obnoxious policies of the APC and President Buhari.

“Perhaps the former INEC chairman has forgotten how the PDP stabilized our fiscal economy and handed over our naira to the APC at N160 to a dollar only for the APC to wreck our currency to a dismal N510 to a dollar.

“He may have also forgotten how the PDP handed over the cost of fuel at N87 per liter and how the APC has hiked it to N165 per liter with attendant pressure on our economy.

“We invite Professor Jega to note how the PDP ran an all-inclusive and transparent administration that guaranteed freedom of speech, equity, fairness as well as free and fair elections, which he attested to; and how the APC, had been running a massively corrupt, insensitive, divisive and exclusionist administration that has destroyed our national cohesion and turned our nation into a battle field.

“After all, the roles which Prof Jega played in bringing this failed party and administration into office are still fresh in the hearts of Nigerians.”

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