Former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has slated the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration
for deploying propaganda to hoodwink Nigerians over its failings.
He said since the APC administration assumed office,
it has nothing tangible to show as an achievement, rather, it has been using
lies and deployment of hi-tech propaganda to cover up its misrules.
Jonathan criticism of the APC administration came
just as leading members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) under the
auspices of Concerned PDP Stakeholders met in Abuja with three of the party's
chairmanship aspirants to try and broker a consensus among them ahead of the
December 9 national convention.
Speaking in Abuja on Thursday while receiving in
audience one of the chairmanship aspirants, Professor Tunde Adeniran, and his
campaign team, Jonathan declared that the PDP did well during its tenure from
May 29, 1999, till May 29, 2015, when it handed over power to the APC, adding
that since then till date, the APC administration failed to impress Nigerians.
Jonathan, who cited instances to back up his claim,
challenged the administration to a public debate over his position.
According to Jonathan, “PDP administration did well for
16 years and will continue to do well, but this administration has done
nothing-the administration is full of lies and propaganda
"In the power sector, we did well to revive it,
but a state governor criticised our government, saying any serious government
should be able to fix the power within six months. Today, APC has been in power
for how many years? Fortunately, the then governor is in the APC government as
a minister."
The former president, however, said all hope was not lost as
the PDP would go all out and put its house in order for it to return to power
in 2019.
He said this has become apparent since Nigerians have been
able to see things for them on the differences between the APC and the PDP.
Jonathan repeated his earlier admonition of his party men to
ensure that they hold a rancour-free national convention and elect capable and
credible leadership.
"With the rate at which people are coming around to
associate with a party that lost elections, it shows that the people still
believe in the PDP, and with the numbers and calibers of the people coming out
to vie for the seat of the national chairman and other offices of our party, it
shows that our party still have another chance," he added.
Meanwhile, a PDP group, the Concerned Stakeholders, led by
the former Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu, on Thursday kick-started a
move to prone down the number of aspirants for the national chairmanship seat
of the party.
The group which included former governors, ministers,
legislators and NWC members met with three of the aspirants, former Minister of
Education, Prof. Tunde Adeniran and former Ogun State Governor, Genga Daniel,
at the Yar'Adua Centre in Abuja to seek an understanding among them to support
a consensus candidate.
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