The Minister of Information has again berated the quality of opposition offered by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The vocal minister claimed while inaugurating the new Governing Board of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) in Abuja on Thursday that the PDP was “unserious and disdainful of the truth”.
He said, “It is a tough time to be a public relations practitioner. I should know. At the Annual Conference and General Meeting of the NIPR in Ilorin in April 2017, I did say that for the government perception manager, whether he or she is the Minister of Information, Commissioner for Information, spokespersons for the President or governor or for any government agency, it is an almost impossible task these days.
“Today, that observation is more valid than when I first made it in 2017 – especially for the government perception managers. This is because we have an opposition that is unserious, very disdainful of the truth, lacks ideas and believes that being in opposition means crying wolf where there is none and spewing out fake information at the speed of light!
“Where is the seriousness in an opposition party throwing out a spurious figure of N10 trillion as the amount of money that has been looted under the present administration? What is Nigeria’s annual national budget?
“How do you react to an opposition that is deliberately perpetually blind to the monumental achievements of this administration?
“While naysayers say they have not seen all these achievements, Nigerians who are benefitting directly from them have testified to the reality of the successes.”