The Peoples Democratic Party has said that the All Progressives Congress shouldn’t attempt to mislead Nigerians by saying that the Presidency is not co-operating with the transition process.
In a statement signed by PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, Metuh said he wondered where the false alarm that the President Jonathan transition committee had not met with that of the incoming President, Maj. Gen. Mohammadu Buhari, was coming from.
The statement read “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.”
Metuh noted that what should concern APC most is the President-Elect, Gen. Mohammadu Buhari’s renegading on his campaign promises.
He said “Nigerians are not in a hurry to forget that the APC promised to rapidly fix the economy, generate, transmit and distribute electricity on a 24/7 basis, pay N5,000 monthly to 25 million poor Nigerians; provide allowances to the discharged but unemployed Youth Corps members for Twelve (12) months, create additional four million new homes, provide free education and meals for school children and bring naira to the same value with the dollar.”