The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday
alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari and his party, the All Progressives
Congress (APC), have betrayed the Almajiris and other vulnerable Nigerians
after using them to take over power in 2015.
The party asserted that the APC and its government
have continued to show their true colours especially as manifested in the
neglect and dehumanising treatment they have meted out to vulnerable Nigerians
since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic.
The PDP in a statement issued by its National
Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said APC disdain and desertion of the
citizens had further exposed it as a deceitful party which used lies,
propaganda and false promises to mislead the people in 2015 to denounce a
system of governance which had their interest at heart and worked day and night
to ensure a better life for them.
According to the party, "Today, the APC and
its government have succeeded in wrecking the lives of ordinary Nigerians,
stole their common patrimony, rendered many homeless, turned their joy into
sadness, hope into hopelessness, fortune into abject poverty, reneged on all
their enticing promises, swindled and abandoned our citizens to a life of
misery.
"From Katsina to Lagos, Kano to Edo, Kaduna to
Osun, Yobe to Ekiti; Plateau to Kogi and all the places where the APC has left its
footprints at the federal and state levels, the downtrodden have been exploited
and abandoned; treated by the APC as sub-humans in their own country."
PDP stated that the APC relishes in abusing and
insulting Nigerian youths, denying them access to economic opportunities and
jobs, and yet tag them as lazy.
It further stated that the APC denied Nigerians
good education, health care, comfortable homes and access to basic necessities
of life, yet demean them as outcasts and undesirable elements fit only for life
on the streets and as tools to manipulate elections for APC leaders.
Accordingly, the party accused the APC of lying to
the people who were already organising their lives along the path of economic
prosperity, development and national cohesion; they beguiled and misled them
into believing that they were being led to Eldorado, only to abandon them in
the middle of nowhere, stripped of honour and means of survival.
The APC, the main opposition party said: “Posed as
the messiah; promised free houses, millions of jobs, monthly allowances and
even promised to bring the value of dollar to one naira,” stressing that
President Buhari promised more prosperity to Nigerians and to rout out insurgency with the snap of
the finger.
Unfortunately, PDP added: "What we witness
today are total reneging on these promises, degradation of citizens, hunger and
starvation, intimidation of dissenting voices, untold corruption, neglect of
our infrastructure, annexation of electoral and judicial system, violation of
human rights, in addition to escalation of insurgency and bloodletting while
the president, who promised to lead from the front, recedes very far into the
luxury and safety of Aso Rock Presidential villa.
"Nigerians can recall how the PDP championed
the cause of the downtrodden, established Almajiri schools, the e-wallet initiatives
for rural farmers, built new universities, revamped our economy, overhauled our
health care system, established the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS),
revamped the mortgage system to give Nigerians access to own houses and
expanded the political space to promote youths and women participation in
governance among others."
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