•Let’s dwell on issues, says party
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has
challenged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
to tell Nigerians how it plans to move from the
alleged near zero governance of the past six years
of the President Goodluck Jonathan
administration to good and purposeful
governance, instead of engaging in perpetual and
tiring mudslinging.
APC’s National Publicity Secretary Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, in a statement yesterday in Lagos,
said the party believes that elections should be
about issues that would be beneficial to the
electorate, “not about throwing everything, but the
kitchen sink at a particular candidate, simply
because of his soaring acceptability.”
The party added that it was, therefore, “time for
the PDP to end the muckraking and tell Nigerians
how it plans to tackle the worsening insecurity in
the land, the collapsing national currency, with
the United States (U.S.) dollar now exchanging
for N215, massive unemployment, especially
among the youth, decayed infrastructure and the
unprecedented corruption under President
Jonathan’s watch.”
It said the essence of the sustained campaign of
calumny against Gen. Muhammadu Buhari by the
PDP was to distract the APC from telling
Nigerians how it plans to effect the much-needed
change from zero to purposeful governance, and
also to sweep under the carpet the glaring
failures of the Jonathan administration.
‘’In both instances, the PDP has failed, as
Nigerians have refused to be swayed by all the
scandal mongering by the PDP, while the APC has
remained focused in selling its game-changing
manifesto to the citizenry,’’ APC said.
The party said the PDP and the president should
tell Nigerians what happened to the $20 billion
missing oil funds, amid concerns that the money
could have vanished into the ruling party’s slush
funds for electioneering campaign.
The statement also reads: ‘’Nigerians are also
asking: Mr. President, where are the Chibok girls
who were abducted nine months ago, and whom
you promised to reunite with their families? What
happened to the stage-managed truce with Boko
Haram and why has no one been punished for
deceiving Nigerians? Mr. President, where is the
report of the forensic audit you ordered into the
missing $20b oil funds? It is now two months
since the deadline set by your finance minister for
the release of that audit report. Will the report go
the way of others before it?
“Mr. President, why are our soldiers being sent to
battle Boko Haram without the necessary
equipment, even though trillions of Naira has been
budgeted for the security and defence sector
under your watch? Why are soldiers having to buy
even their uniforms and the wounded among them
financing their medical treatment, as some
soldiers said in a CNN interview?
“Mr. President, why have you castrated the anti-
corruption agencies, rendering them comatose
and unable to tackle the runaway corruption
under your watch? What signals are you sending
to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission
(EFCC) , for example, when you picked as your
campaign spokesman the same man who is
facing corruption charges? Is that a way of telling
the EFCC to let the notorious suspect off the
hook?
“Mr. President, you vowed that those involved in
the N2.6 trillion fuel subsidy scam would never go
unpunished, but many months later, none has
been punished and it is back to business as
usual. When will you consider stealing of public
funds a serious act of corruption, sir?
‘’Mr. President, you said while campaigning for
the 2011 elections that ‘four years is enough for
anyone to make significant improvement, and if I
can’t improve on power within this period, it
means I cannot do anything’. Why should
Nigerians trust you to deliver on your promises
this time around, now that the power situation
has gone from bad to worse under your watch?
“Mr. President, instead of creating jobs for the
teeming unemployed youth of Nigeria, your
administration has been fleecing and sending
them to their early graves, as it happened during
the fraudulent Immigration recruitment exercise in
March 2014, when many innocent youths got
death instead of jobs. When will you move from
creating phantom jobs to real jobs?
“These are the issues that are bothering Nigerians
and these are the issues they want answers to,
instead of engaging in an unprecedented
personality-focused campaign,” the party said.
APC said the truth was that the PDP and the
president did not have any answers to the serious
issues raised above.
Hence, they have decided to engage in a multi-
pronged approach of mudslinging, campaign for
election postponement and the instigation of
violence to scuttle next month’s general elections,

They know they do not have issues to dwell on. they are vagabonds when it comes to issues: They have no focus. that i s why the are dwelling on propaganda and character assassination.

We have been hearing all those, there are no new stories

They are getting a dose of their own medicine, now they are complaining.

All the while they have been calling Gej names and the man was playing gentleman, now he is giving them a dose of their own medicine, the are crying let's focus on issues.

They have not even ruled yet they have so many negativities attached to their candidate and party at large, what will now happen when he becomes president??

Useless Old fulani man who can't do without cows!!!!!....If he truly wanted change he would have allowed Fashola and the likes to come out, but because North is born to rule he wants to be president of his village by all means. Ruuuuubbish!!!!!

Goodluck Jonathan, keep doing it (exposing Buhari)!!!..if he likes, he should send his boys to bomb the entire borno state!!!!

[size=22pt]Jonthan government is the worst in our history on the economy. - Charles Soludo[/size]

We were reminded of Jonathan’s agricultural ‘revolution’. But someone cut in and noted that for all the propaganda, the growth rate of the agricultural sector in the last five years still remains far below the performance under Obasanjo. One of us reminded him that no other president had presided over the slaughter of about 15,000 people by insurgents in a peacetime; no other president earned up to 50% of the amount of resources the current government earned from oil and yet with very little outcomes; no other president had the rate of borrowing; none had significant forex earnings and yet did not add one penny to foreign reserves but losing international reserves at a time of boom; no other president had a depreciating exchange rate at a time of export boom; at no time in Nigeria’s history has poverty reached 71% (even under Abacha, it was 67 -70%); and under no other president did unemployment reach 24%. Surely, these are unprecedented records and he surely ‘outperformed’ his predecessors! What a satire!


[size=20pt]My advice to President Jonathan and his handlers is to stop wasting their time trying to campaign on his job record. [/size]


Despite presiding over the biggest oil boom in our history, it has not added one percentage point to the growth rate of GDP compared to the Obasanjo regime especially the 2003- 07 period. Obasanjo met GDP growth rate at 2% but averaged 7% within 2003- 07. The current government has been stuck at 6% despite an unprecedented oil boom. Income (GDP) growth has actually performed worse, and poverty escalated. This is the only government in our history where rapidly increasing government expenditure was associated with increasing poverty. The director general of NBS stated in his written press conference address in 2011 that about 112 million Nigerians were living in poverty. Is this the record to defend?

buhari should show us his certificate first.

Same old stories coming from APC..they have never outlined their plans to tackle problems,instead they go about judging GEJ for not living up to his promises..clueless party.

This coming from hay pee cee!! Hahahaha can the devil repent! Another attempt to wink pdp into slowing down so they restrategize and come back hard like their boko brothers! Nice try loosers! No one is buying this! Do your worst! Now their no certificate master has been arm twisted to his knees, they seek diplomacy ?? This is just getting started! Tune to A.I.T and enjoy the show

Any election anywhere in the world starts with personalities before the issues be not deceived. Just like job interviews, once you're found wanting in key values like honesty you're doomed no matter your knowledge and skills levels.
In the US which the APC like to make references from, if you once did as much as touch a female's dress without her permission, you can't even get your party's nomination...an affair while married, bullying someone while in school, etc are gonna render you impotent in any election...if it is there, Buhari would've tendered his apologies to the nation and quietly withdrew from the race by now.

PDP has no issues to discuss because it really has non so all they tell us is Buhari and him building jails for them.

Alh Lai M . we won't believe you and your Party APC , It won't happen not this time . NOBODY IS BIGGER THAN NIGERIA . Tell Buhari to forward His certificates to INEC simple . He who comes into equity must come with clean hands . PERJURY....