President Buhari Has Fought Poverty, Corruption, APC Insists

  • The APC has once again taken a swipe at Nigeria’s main opposition party, PDP
  • The ruling party attacked PDP for berating President Buhari over his promises to foreign envoys
  • The PDP had earlier condemned the Nigerian leader for making “empty promises”

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has taken another swipe at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for berating President Muhammadu Buhari over his promises to foreign envoys, Premium Times reports.

Nigeria’s ruling party responded to the PDP after the opposition in a statement on Wednesday, August 26, condemned Buhari as his promises to Nigerians to fight against insurgency, insecurity, corruption, and improve the economy are yet to be kept after five years in office.

PDP also maintained that the current administration has worsened Nigerians’ conditions after dismissing Buhari’s nine priorities for his remaining three years in office.

The opposition went on to add that the promises to the foreign envoy were ‘fake’. The party’s spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, alleged that the Buhari-led administration had wrecked the economy instead of improving it.

However, in its reaction, the APC said it has stopped joining issues with the opposition. The ruling party added that the PDP’s 16-year rule was characterized by “voodoo economics, abandoned projects, institutionalized corruption among other frauds.”

Yekini Nabena, the APC deputy national spokesperson, insisted that in spite of the number of yet to be answered corruption cases against members of the present administration, the Buhari-led administration has fought corruption to its minimum.

Nabena also maintained that the president has established the country as a better investment destination.

Prior to this, President Buhari, on Tuesday, August 25, unveiled his plan for Nigeria for the remaining part of his second administration which is to expire in 2023. The Nigerian leader, in a statement released by a presidential media aide, Femi Adesina, disclosed that he will spend the next three years on service delivery to Nigerians in some key sectors of the nation’s economy.

The president listed the sectors that will experience unequalled development to be education, health care and agriculture.

He said that this massive feat will be achieved through a flexible tax system that will definitely attract foreign investors.

Source:Premium Times reports.

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