The Peoples Democratic Party, on Monday, faulted claims by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, that the opposition party was trying to distort the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)’s achievements, saying the country only recorded retrogression under the regime.
The former ruling party listed Buhari’s achievements to include corruption, high unemployment rate, weakened currency, N33 trillion foreign debt, among others.
The PUNCH had earlier reported that the minister alleged that the PDP’s desperation to return to power in 2023 was responsible for its plan “to sabotage” the President’s regime.
He noted that the plan of the main opposition party was to overheat the polity, distort Buhari’s achievement, and misinform Nigerians.
“As you know, the folks on the other side have been doing everything in recent times to overheat the polity, distort the achievements of our administration, and spread misinformation,” Mohammed said while briefing journalists in Abuja, on Monday.
But responding to Mohammed’s allegation on Monday night, the PDP spokesman, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, described the minister’s presser “as another anthology of lies, false and bogus performance claims by the failed and rudderless All Progressives Congress administration.”
In a statement titled, ‘Lai Mohammed’s Press Conference, Another APC’s Anthology of Lies – PDP’, Ologunagba alleged that figures and completed projects churned out by the minister as Buhari’s achievements were false.
The statement read in part, “It is ludicrous and insensitive that the APC government went to the media to list non-existence roads, bridges, agricultural and health projects as achievements. More pathetic is the APC’s attempt to claim credit for development projects initiated and implemented by successive PDP administrations including in our railways, aviation, agricultural, healthcare, education, telecommunications, banking, and manufacturing sectors among others.
“It is laughable that the APC government is also claiming credit for critical projects in various parts of the country which are being funded by resources mobilized by the PDP administrations under the framework of counterpart funding from International Partners and bodies.
“The only legitimate achievements of the APC government include its corruption record (second most corrupt in West Africa and 154 out of 180 on Global Corruption Index), over 33 percent unemployment rate, a weakened currency at over N500 to a dollar, N33 trillion foreign debt and still counting and the siphoning of over N16 trillion by APC leaders.
“The PDP cautions the APC to note that its continued arrogance in failure is daily confronting and reminding Nigerians of the statement made by one of its founding members, the late Prince Tony Momoh in April 2016 and the consequences are better imagined.”
