August 10, 2015

Press Statement

‘Stop Appropriating Our Achievements’ –PDP Cautions APC
…..Charges Buhari To Articulate Economic Direction

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counsels the All Progressives Congress (APC) to always be sincere and stop appropriating the achievements of past administration as theirs.

The party said, instead, the APC and President Muhammadu Buhari should make haste and activate the various economic outlets which have been stagnated as a result of their obvious inability to articulate a clear-cut economic policy for the nation.

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh in a statement on Monday said it is disappointing that a government which came to power on claims of high moral ground, rather than focusing on delivering its promises, is dancing around the achievements of the previous government in an attempt to make the public believe that recorded successes in critical sectors are theirs.

“For instance, how do we explain APC’s spirited effort to make the public believe that the equipping of the country’s military for the fights against insurgency; the turn around of the nation’s oil refineries; and the polio-free certification of Nigeria were products of their government even when it is common knowledge that they have not been able to find their bearing for governance since their election into office.

"If the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki had not been courageous enough to release those incontrovertible facts that the Goodluck Jonathan-led PDP administration actually fortified the country's military before leaving office in May, the APC would have succeeded in its propaganda against that administration and led Nigerians to believe that the equipping was a product of President Buhari’s recent diplomatic shuttles.

“It is an obvious fact that before the May 29 handover to the APC, the Nigerian armed forces, using these equipment sourced under the watch of the PDP government, had already pushed the insurgents to the verge of surrender in the Sambisa forest, only for them to now re-surge under the APC-led government due to apparent lack of direction and confusion that have characterized this administration.

“In the same way, this government has positioned itself to claim credit for the turn around and resuscitation of some of the nation's oil refineries without reference to the past administration that initiated and executed the Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) of the facilities years back, which dividends the nation now enjoys and which we expect will result in steady supply of petroleum products in our nation.

“Similarly, informed Nigerians note with dismay how the APC administration has been celebrating the certification of Nigeria as polio-free in the last one year by the World Health Organization (WHO) without giving credit to the PDP-led government under whose watch the feat was achieved.

“While the PDP well understands the nervousness of the APC and its government in the challenge of fulfilling their bogus promises upon which they rode to power, such does not in any way rationalise the resort to deceit and flagrant appropriation of another’s achievements, a thing no serious, credible and honest government will do”.

The PDP said instead of trying to poach achievements to earn an undeserved praise, the APC and its government should brace up, articulate a precise economic policy, assemble an economic team and urgently commence the delivery of their promises for which they were voted.

The party said it finds it unacceptable, not withstanding the reasons being adduced, for a government in a democratic setting to run for almost three months without a cabinet and any policy direction whatsoever.

“This is the first time since independence that our nation has stayed without a complete composition of government for three months. Unfortunately, the negative effect of this anomaly, which has taken a huge toll on the country’s economy and the welfare of Nigerians, will be with us in the coming years.

“We express this concern against the backdrop of information that unpatriotic persons close to government are already hounding civil servants for inflated concessions, allocations, jobs and other favours being unduly granted, making the system fertile for heavy financial sleazes in the absence of appropriate statutory supervising officers.

“This is in addition to the avoidable economic downturn now manifesting in the abandonment of ongoing infrastructural projects, crippling of foreign and domestic investments and continued slide in the money and capital markets.

“Finally, we want to reiterate our earlier call on Nigerians to continue to pray for President Muhammadu Buhari, who for obvious reasons is surrounded by people whose divergent personal interests have become a huge burden on our dear nation, the integrity of this government, the health of our economy and sustenance of our democracy”.


Signed:

Chief Olisa Metuh
National Publicity Secretary

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.I quite understand the frustrations and pains of metuh,its indeed cold to be in opposition. I haven't read in any newspaper, where APC said GEJ nv bought ammunitions to combat book haram,so i dont know where metuh got this allegation from.To the best of my knowledge,APC has not claimed responsibility for GEJ's achievements, because GEJ didn't leave any tangible long lasting achievements behind.

Metuh is getting more childish and irrelevant by d day.
All these his childish press releases is diminishing the PDP further.Daily more and more people are now taking Metuh guided PDP to be a joke.

Governance is a continuous process Mr man we are going to carry on for now until we have real excellences distinguished men and women honourable enough to take good control of various positions assigned to them.

GRACIAS!!! EASY HEADS BUY THE IDEA APC IS SELLING. HOW CAN WE HAVE 2 WORKING REFINERIES IN 2 MONTHS? IT WAS LAID PATH BY THE PREVIOUS GOVERNMENT!

Nice one from Metuh. The APC seem at lost on how to deliver their numerous pre-election promises.

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#PEOPLE DECIEVING PEOPLE VS #ASSOCIATION OF PAST CRIMINALS APC old wine in new bottle PDP old wine in broken bottle

doctokwus:
Metuh is getting more childish and irrelevant by d day.
All these his childish press releases is diminishing the PDP further.Daily more and more people are now taking Metuh guided PDP to be a joke.

See your coconut head. Not an insult pls, just a description.

doctokwus:
Metuh is getting more childish and irrelevant by d day.
All these his childish press releases is diminishing the PDP further.Daily more and more people are now taking Metuh guided PDP to be a joke.

On the contrary he's doing his job very well as an opposition party spokesman. APC should stop claiming PDP's achievement and focus on delivering their campaign promises. Afterall, it was APC that said PDP destroyed Nigeria for sixteen years.

Metuh failed to add the improvement in Power generation, transmission and distribution. "Change agents " are crediting the Daura strongman for the new feat in this sector. When you ask them, hear their answer "It's his body language at work" Little wonder then why Mr. President has refused to constitute an economic team since his "body language " is sufficient.

The more Pdp keeps trying, the harder it gets to convince Nigerians, I feel so sorry for the Pdp at this moment.

Rubbish!

Goke7:
The more Pdp keeps trying, the harder it gets to convince Nigerians, I feel so sorry for the Pdp at this moment.

LOL. DID YOU EVEN UNDERSTAND THE ARTICLE OR IS THIS AN IMPAREMENT?

I initially thought that the wailing of some of the people on this forum are just too childish to be approved by a 'BIG' party as the PDP; but I now understand that even their choef wailler is more pedestrian.
When Jonathan met the dredging of river Niger already approved by the late Yar'adua (especially the part that benefited the North) did he not stop it? Why didn't he continue it so as to take credit for it as 'Buhari is now taking credit for continuing GEJ'S projects'?

Metuh is a disgrace to spokemanship