APC is a Party of Issues, Not Brickbats, Lai Mohammed Relies Okupe
Posted By Editor On 18th August, 2013. Under POLITICS

APC LogoThe All Progressives Congress, APC has said it is not a party interested in the politics of brickbats but politics of issues, adding that it is out to do things differently.

Reacting to a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Public Affairs, Dr Doyin Okupe who was the guest of the week at Liberty FM radio in Kaduna yesterday, spokesman of the APC, Lai Mohammed said: “Nigerians are not interested in the expiration of either APC or PDP; what Nigerians are interested in is the politics of issues.

Okupe has carpeted the APC saying the PDP will not lose sleep over the coming of APC.

According to Okupe, “APC cannot last more than a year. This is a party that is formed on faulty foundation, this is a party that has come together not for the interest of the country. APC is formed not because they want to help Nigeria but because they want power and self-aggrandisement. The leaders of the APC want to expand their frontiers and they want to expand their business empires.”

But according to APC spokesman in his reaction said ”Nigerians wanted to know why the PDP should deserve their votes again after 14 years of mass failure in every facet of administration. They wanted to know why, after 14 years of PDP, there is still epileptic power supply; they wanted to know why, after 14 years of PDP, our safety and security cannot be guaranteed, why over 400,000 barrels of crude oil are being stolen on the watch of the PDP daily, why corruption has become a monster on the watch of the party.”

He continued: “Nigerians want to know why we cannot feed ourselves again? Why millions of our youths are still roaming the streets looking for jobs that are not there? These are the questions Nigerians are asking the PDP. We are on a rescue mission and we would not allow any distraction. It is not about Tinubu or Buhari. What APC would do differently when it comes to power is in our manifestoes which would be unveiled soon.”

vatos locos: The PDP has no answers to the questions raised by mohammed. Ask of how to share the money, and you'll get an appropriate answer from PDP.

vatos locos: The PDP has no answers to the questions raised by mohammed. Ask of how to share the money, and you'll get an appropriate answer from PDP.

HNosegbe: Exactly.

These are the kind of responses I want to see from the APC. Discuss the issues of the day. Talk about the failures of the party in power, the massive deceit, corruption and waste in governance, the refusal of the govt to think up innovative ways to solve our infrastructural crisis.

These are the things the APC should keep harping on (while showing us how they'll do better) rather than resort to Okupe-style name-calling and abusive, uncouth language.

I'm encouraged.

HNosegbe: Exactly.

These are the kind of responses I want to see from the APC. Discuss the issues of the day. Talk about the failures of the party in power, the massive deceit, corruption and waste in governance, the refusal of the govt to think up innovative ways to solve our infrastructural crisis.

These are the things the APC should keep harping on (while showing us how they'll do better) rather than resort to Okupe-style name-calling and abusive, uncouth language.

I'm encouraged.

FreeGlobe:
That may be because Tinubu singularly shares the money of APC

touch4mony: apart from lagos which of the 12 states controled by the opposition is better off than d pdp states

software man:
the best comparison is to take states PDP and APC has ruled before and do a comparison of the progress under each partty's rule.
if you do this for states such as OGUN, OYO, OSUN, EDO, EKITI.
if you do a proper analysis, we will see there is no basis for comparison. the diffrence is like comparing darkness with light.

Garri the 1st:

I stayed in Edo. State (for my University Education) between 2004 and 2008/2009. Till date I'm still a regular visitor to Edo State. That was the beginning of my Pro-ACN stand. I can authoritatively tell you that as far as Edo state is concerned, comparing PDP to ACN/APC is like comparing night to day. Forget about the sly attempt of PDP rats and flies to quickly say "we are all the same". Nothing can be farther from the truth than that assertion. It's a vain attempt to bring down a truly progressive movement to the abysmal level of a retrogressive party that has bequeathed nothing to Nigerians but poverty, hardship and backwardness.

That said I commend Lai Mohamed for this fine write-up and encourage him and the APC to keep up the good work. I pray Festus Kenyamo is able to get the APC ticket of Delta State and rescue her from the clutches of backwardness and darkness which has been the lot of the good people of the state for over 14 years of PDP rule.

Yes, Mr Garri has spoken!!!