THE All Progressives Congress on Monday said the lingering economic crisis in the country should no longer be blamed on the 16-year streak of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.



The party said it could no longer continue to blame past administrations for the enormous hardship Nigerians are grappling with.

The party’s new position was disclosed by the Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, when he briefed reporters shortly after he and other APC governors met with President Muhammadu Buhari in the State House on Monday afternoon.

“We must take responsibility and we must never shift the responsibility to anybody,” Mr. Okorocha said.

“We are responsible for everything happening in Nigeria.”

“The good, the bad, the ugly but we are promising Nigerians that we shall fix it,” Mr. Okorocha said.

The admission followed months of stern denial from the leadership of the APC and the Buhari administration, who maintained that Nigerians should direct their anger towards the PDP.

Mr. Okorocha, who is also the chairman of APC Governors’ Forum, said the party had now recognised that Nigerians are experiencing untold economic pains and his party had commenced initiatives that would address them.

“We share the pains of Nigerians, every human being must feel it,” Mr. Okorocha said.

“We also feel what they are going through but we are asking for a little patience let us do things the right way and do it once and for all.”

duduade:
Lol....
Reversed psychology tactics.

Mr. Okorocha...said the party had now recognised that Nigerians are experiencing untold economic pains and his party had commenced initiatives that would address them.

freeze001:
Ndi ara Chineke turu mbo n'ike! So they now just realise that Nigerians have been experiencing hell wrought by them? I thought it was non APC members and supporters that were complaining.


Good God! From the responses above I can now confirm that niggling suspicion...APC minions n bigots have no mind of their own, they're just unfortunate victims of the herd mentality whose utterances are controlled by the boss's feelings, whims and caprice. They have no basis for whatever they believe and espouse other than what they are told which they just latch unto hook, line and sinker like hapless fish until they are reeled in and then the rest is history.

Otherwise, I cannot understand why accepting responsibility is what 'a good party does' unless they've been a bad party all along... This is what sane Nigerians have been saying, screaming and even screeching at the top of their voices that the blame game holds no water but is just a workman quarrelling with his tools but no, it had to be 16 years of PDP or nothing!

Clearly it's just a political gimmick but the slavish responses I see...Hmmm...

QuotaSystem:
Who else did you expect to take responsibility if not the party in power? Is it the now regional opposition party named PDP that wailers expected to fix the mess that APC met?

Yes APC is responsible for fixing PDP's mess. The point that can never be denied is that the current economic mess was triggered, caused and directly brought upon by the PDP's failure to save during our period of plenty and failure to diversify with our excess crude income which would have served as a buffer when prices eventually crashed under the APC administration.

This is simply stating undeniable facts and not passing the buck.