APC campaign: Unlike PDP, Buhari government has achievements to be proud of

The presidential campaign council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has shown that it has “nothing to offer” Nigerians.

The APC was responding to a recent statement by the PDP, which described the ruling party as “dead”.

Meanwhile, the PDP statement was in reaction to the comments of Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in which the latter has described the opposition party as one “that lacks direction”.

In a statement on Monday, Bayo Onanuga, director of media and publicity of the APC presidential campaign council, said the party will not join issues with the PDP, but engage with Nigerians on its plans to develop the country.

“The PDP has again demonstrated that it has nothing to offer to better the lives of our people just like its sordid past in government. PDP only wants to keep its floundering campaign alive by engaging in groundless muckraking,” the statement reads.

“PDP and its ever clueless leaders did more shameful things, by declaring falsely that the governing party was dead, when they know it is the party that they needed to beat to realise the inordinate ambition of their perennial candidate and perennially failed Atiku Abubakar.

“PDP as a party was not satisfied with this lie as it launched a chapter from its propaganda playbook that the APC government has achieved nothing when our administration’s stellar achievements are there for even the blind to see.

“Let us make it clear to the PDP: the current APC government has many achievements to be proud of, unlike the PDP that squandered and plundered Nigeria’s resources and could not even deliver a simple Second Niger bridge to the people of South East, that have always delivered votes for it since 1999. To the shame of PDP and eternal credit to APC, President Muhammadu Buhari will commission the bridge this year.”

The APC campaign council also listed other achievements of the present administration to include work on the “Lagos-Ibadan expressway, Lagos-Ibadan, Warri-Itakpe rail network and over 13,000 kilometres of roads, including bridges at different stages of completion across the country”.

“This contrasted with the PDP years when in its first 10 years spent N633 billion on roads no one can see,” Onanuga said.

“The Buhari administration has completed no fewer than five airports and will take the credit for ensuring that the $17 billion Dangote refinery and petrochemical complex and the $3billion Lekki Deep Sea Port are accomplished.

“President Buhari can point to unprecedented investments in agriculture through the Anchor Borrowers scheme for rice, maize, cotton and others. Under the APC-led administration, Nigeria became the biggest producer of rice in Africa and cut down Nigeria’s rice and food import bill significantly.

“Nigeria remains net producer of maize, sesame, yam, millet, cashew and sorghum on the back of the life changing investments in agriculture by the Buhari administration. The APC government completed over 200 dams and irrigation projects to help farmers plant throughout the year. In 2021, Nigeria produced 23 million tonnes of maize according to Maize Farmers Association.

“The Buhari government will be eternally remembered for its unprecedented social investment programme that has reduced poverty in the land and given hope to millions of vulnerable homes.

“Do we need to remind the PDP of the shame it wore as badge of honour every Christmas during its 16 years of mis-governance when Nigerians were made to queue to buy petrol? This ugly spectacle at the pumps disappeared in the last seven years.”

The APC campaign council added that while its party acknowledges the challenges relating to security and economy, which it said are currently being tackled by the present administration, “the incoming APC government as Tinubu revealed is already strategising on how to deal with the problems, as governing is a continuum”.