The All Progressive Congress, APC, national chairman, Chief John Oyegun has on Thursday slammed opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as he posited that the party lacked the moral right to criticise the president and the state of the nation.
Oyegun while speaking on Thursday said: “it is stomach-churning and downright immoral for the ruinous PDP, which has yet to show remorse or exhibit any form of penitence for presiding over the mindless looting of the nation’s treasury, to now put itself up as the saviour of Nigerians.”
Oyegun further noted that there’s honour even among thieves, he added that Nigerians are suffering as a result of the gross incompetence and mismanagement which was the order of the day during the PDP-led administration.
He further added that the country had not forgotten the $15 billion which amounts to about half of the nation’s foreign reserves which was mismanaged under the Goodluck Jonathan administration.
He also noted the $2.1 billion which was shared among PDP faithfuls during the last general elections in the country. Adding to the list of gross mismanagement, Oyegun further listed other instances which include:
1. The $20 billion in oil proceeds that was never paid into the Federation Account
2. The N33 trillion in national oil revenue that was not accounted for, considering that while the nation earned in excess of N56 trillion over five years under the last Administration, the total budget for those years amounted to about N23 trillion
3. The $47 million that was distributed to a few individuals just to oil the election process before the last polls.
He said: “What is happening now is clear: Just because the farmer has not checkmated the thief, he (thief) has become so emboldened that he is now making a move to even cage the farmer from whom he has been stealing.
“How else can one characterize the most annoying statement by the PDP that it is on a mission to rescue Nigeria, the tale of a killer presenting himself as a life saver!
“Are these people jokers? Do they think Nigerians do not realize that the stage for today’s tough economic situation was set by the same PDP that is now masquerading as a saviour?
“Worse still, is this PDP’s bold face not a ploy to distract the Administration that is on a rescue mission?
“Nigeria is currently in ICU (intensive care unit), after it was rescued from PDP. Yet, the same PDP has the audacity to constantly pillory the ‘doctors’ trying to save the ‘patient’”
Urging Nigerians to support the current administration and shun the PDP and its antics, Oyegun said: “Yes, we knew the situation was bad, but we never imagined that it was this bad.
“Yes, we knew that the vast majority of our national patrimony had been stolen and converted by PDP and their cronies, but we clearly under-estimated the scope of the stealing.
“The fact that our country and people survived the PDP and the last administration is perhaps the 8th wonder of the world.
“But we have long moved beyond bothering about this mindless party to seeking to bring the nation back to its feet. What we cannot fathom is for the same PDP to now be heckling us and pretending to be the new saviour of Nigerians.
“Engaging in a campaign of calumny by claiming that the country’s economy under President Muhammadu Buhari was deteriorating is so unconscionable on the part of the PDP, which frittered away the huge windfall that the nation earned during the years that oil sold for over $100.
“Even with the number of PDP operatives and officials who have confessed or admitted their complicity in the looting of the treasury, the party has continued to try to pull the wool over the face of Nigerians.
“This shameless distraction must stop forthwith, and here is serving notice that henceforth, the PDP will no longer have a field day in trying to twist facts and present the Buhari administration, which is on an urgent rescue mission, as the villain.”