John Oyegun, the national chairman of Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, stirred the hornet’s nest on Friday, August 19, 2016 when he went after the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, with an attempt to silence it.
Oyegun declaring that the PDP has “no right, whatsoever, to criticize a government doing its best to right the wrongs left by Goodluck Jonathan’s government and others that went before it”, Signal report.
”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,” Chief Oyegun said.
“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,” the APC leader asked.
“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’,” Oyegun said.
Not taking the punches from the APC lying low, the PDP has come back at the Buhari administration targeting its poor performance on the economy.
In a set of numbered tweets posted by the @PDPNigeria handle on Friday, the PDP took Buhari’s economic policies to the cleaners.
Read the highlight tweets of the rejoinder to the APC chairman.
1. We read the statement by Chief John Oyegun, chairman of @APCNigeria, to the effect that PDP has no right to speak about…1/2
— #VoteAndStay (@voteandstay) August 19, 2016
…@NGRPresident’s economic failures & felt compelled to respond for record purposes. 2/2
— PDP Nigeria (@PdpNigeria) August 19, 2016
2. First off, Section S39 CFRN guarantees all Nigerians the right to freedom of expression. Chief Oyegun & his party would do well to…1/2
— PDP Nigeria (@PdpNigeria) August 19, 2016
… stop its many attempts at violating this right. 2/2
— PDP Nigeria (@PdpNigeria) August 19, 2016
3. Secondly, we will not follow Chief Oyegun’s path by responding with an invective rejoinder. We will let the facts speak for themselves
— PDP Nigeria (@PdpNigeria) August 19, 2016
4. For the avoidance of doubt these are some of the economic indices inherited by the @MBuhari admin-
— PDP Nigeria (@PdpNigeria) August 19, 2016
8. There are NO economic indices anywhere in the world by which the @Mbuhari admin can be rated better than ours’. His performance as…1/2
— PDP Nigeria (@PdpNigeria) August 19, 2016
8. There are NO economic indices anywhere in the world by which the @Mbuhari admin can be rated better than ours’. His performance as…1/2
— PDP Nigeria (@PdpNigeria) August 19, 2016
– Single digit inflation. It was 9.6% at the inception of the @MBuhari admin. It stands at 16.5% now pic.twitter.com/GonKdPNVfo
— PDP Nigeria (@PdpNigeria) August 19, 2016
– No 1 destination for Foreign Investment in Africa with $395m in investments in Q1 2015 alone.
— PDP Nigeria (@PdpNigeria) August 19, 2016
-A GDP at an average growth of 8% p/a in the last 10 yrs. #NGR is experiencing its first -tive GDP growth since 1999 pic.twitter.com/3ZdaMToThu
— PDP Nigeria (@PdpNigeria) August 19, 2016
-A GDP at an average growth of 8% p/a in the last 10 yrs. #NGR is experiencing its first -tive GDP growth since 1999 pic.twitter.com/3ZdaMToThu
— PDP Nigeria (@PdpNigeria) August 19, 2016
– A telecoms sector that has received more than $32b in investment since 2001.
— PDP Nigeria (@PdpNigeria) August 19, 2016
– The largest economy in African valued at over $500b.
– An economy that was reducing the employment rate. pic.twitter.com/9RS2tFTDpq
— PDP Nigeria (@PdpNigeria) August 19, 2016
– An economy that had successfully increased per capita income from $299.4 in 1999 to $2640 in 2015 pic.twitter.com/DZ2qKyUgl4
— PDP Nigeria (@PdpNigeria) August 19, 2016
– A stock market valued at N11.66t. The #NGR Stock market has lost more than N1t of its value since the inception of the @MBuhari admin.
— PDP Nigeria (@PdpNigeria) August 19, 2016
– An economy that had reduced its food import bill from well over N1t to N684.7 billion as at December 2013 & was on target to meet…1/2
— PDP Nigeria (@PdpNigeria) August 19, 2016
… its target of producing 20million MT of food annually. 2/2
— PDP Nigeria (@PdpNigeria) August 19, 2016
– An economy that was diversifying by exponentially increasing non-oil revenue for the federation. pic.twitter.com/PeIgQk66Bj
— PDP Nigeria (@PdpNigeria) August 19, 2016
– A successfully unbundled power sector with a suitable environment for investment.
— PDP Nigeria (@PdpNigeria) August 19, 2016
