Expdonaloaded News; Focus on delivering campaign promises, PDP tells APC

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has de­scribed as diversion­ary and unnecessary, Thursday’s claims by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that the Presidency and the PDP were not cooperating in the transition process. The party charged the APC to put its house in order, come straight and tell the nation the confusion in its camp instead of trying to shift blames.

PDP National Publicity, Olisa Metuh, in a statement on Friday, said the meetings of the transi­tion and inauguration commit­tees of both parties have been going on fruitfully and wondered where the false alarm was com­ing from if not a measure of con­fusion in the APC camp.
“While we understand Alhaji Lai Mohammed’s excitement in the euphoria of his party’s un­expected victory, we view the APC’s provocative statement, especially the unguarded invec­tives on the Presidency and PDP as an unfortunate display of arro­gance and falsehood ostensibly aimed at heating up the system and creating room to cover for its inadequacies, thereby inventing excuses for any failure in office.
“We can confirm that the APC Transition Committee led by Mallam Ahmed Joda has met at least twice with the Presidency team led by Vice President Na­madi Sambo while the Timipre Sylva-led APC Inauguration Committee has been meeting almost on a daily basis with the PDP team led by the Secretary to the Government of the Federa­tion, Senator Anyim Pius Any­im. It is, therefore, most unchari­table for the APC to attempt to mislead the people by claiming that the PDP-led Presidency was not cooperating in the process.
“Although the ruling party suffered some electoral setback, Nigerians are witnesses to the fact that the PDP has remained humble in defeat while focusing on rebuilding and reinventing it­self. Such should not in anyway warrant the unnecessary attacks, vituperations and insults from the APC.
“As we look up from the low­est level we have ever fallen, we are fully determined to start the process of ascending back to an acceptable level in earnest.post by expdonaloaded.blogspot.com.. The APC must, therefore, learn to be decent and cease to be arrogant as that would amount to taking the goodwill of the people for granted.
“What should be of more concern to an in-coming govern­ment like APC is the negative signals and the rising worries by Nigerians over its flip-flops and apparent nervousness of its President-elect who has started reneging on his campaign prom­ises.
“Nigerians were bewildered when they heard General Buhari renege on his messianic posture and told them in clear terms not to expect him to rapidly fix the problems of the nation as he had promised during the campaign.
“The same President-elect who boldly stated in his cam­paign manifesto that ‘I, Muham­madu Buhari have resolved that the task ahead of me is that of securing our nation and prosper­ing our people, not looking back­ward to the failed policies and promises’ had on May 5, 2015 in a meeting with a meeting with APC governors-elect reneged and announced that he has start­ed nervously to explain to people that Rome was not built in a day.
“Furthermore while the APC in a statement on April 3, 2015 denied that the President-elect pledged to end insurgency in two months of being sworn in, the video clip of his interview with Christiane Amanpour on CNN on April 2, 2015 is clear on the promise made by Buhari.
“General Buhari in answer­ing a question on how to deal with the divisions in the country said ‘the actual division which is worth bothering about, I think in terms of social instability, that is insecurity in the North-East and in the Delta area, which I think they have been with the country long enough that we know how they started and what stage they are now, therefore we are confi­dent that we will rapidly give at­tention to security in the country and I believe we will effectively deal with them in two months when we get into office.’