Chief Olisa Metuh, National Spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party has slammed the recently unveiled manifesto of the All Progressives Congress, calling it a product of ‘janjaweed ideology’.
The PDP said the APC’s manifesto was “a roadmap to anarchy, which is typical of all anti-democratic coalitions.”
It added that the APC talked of its preparedness to defeat terrorism but could give no blueprint as to how it intended to solve a problem that has been giving the ruling PDP sleepless nights.
“It was a tacit acknowledgment that the APC may be benefiting from the mayhem and knows more than meets the eyes about the spate of terror attacks in the country.
“When last year in its first official outing, the leaders of the APC said terrorism in Nigeria would disappear within 100days of APC leadership, Nigerians did ask if they knew the characters in crime and their sponsors, APC gave silence as an answer while Nigerians kept wondering.
“Today, the party has released its manifesto with loud silence on the matter so that Nigerians would not raise further questions on the face behind the terrorism mask.”
The PDP in its statement also said the APC was not in a better position to tackle corruption.
“The PDP created anti corruption agencies- the ICPC, the EFCC and established the Freedom of Information Act to further give teeth to the war on graft.
“The PDP-led federal government has also shown no preferences in its battle on corruption as senior party leaders as well as relations have at one time or another been made to face the law on charges of corruption.
“The spirited defence for the suspended Central Bank Governor mounted by the APC was because the leaders of the party benefited immensely from the regime of sleaze that took place under Sanusi.
“A fraudulent N84 billion contract was awarded to a leader of the party while another N5billion was paid to another stalwart of the party as consultancy fee”, the party added.