APC speaks on 2019 election, attacks PDP

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has lambasted the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku
Abubakar.

It said the opposition leaders were in Lokoja, the capital of
Kogi State on Tuesday and made a lot of noise, and left without
making any statement worthy of note.

Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, APC National Publicity Secretary, in a
statement, said the party and Nigerians were wondering how PDP got
to its current level of shamelessness.

The party said it was “shocking to see the few leaders of PDP
who are still showing up in the public for campaign alongside the
discredited Alhaji Atiku, standing before the paltry crowd in the
Lokoja stadium, blowing hot air, stomping the platform, and making
empty promises.

“What did the PDP promise the people of Kogi State? Nothing. It
is that bad. Understandably, it must have been a very difficult
situation for the PDP leaders to face the people of Kogi State to
ask for support to return to power. Perhaps, many of them must have
travelled on the Abuja – Lokoja express road that was awarded in
2001 when Atiku was the Vice President.

“What explanation did they have for the Kogi people on why the
less than 200 kilometres road was not completed for 15 years while
the party was still in power? Did it worry their conscience when
they sighted the Sukuk billboard on the road, showing how President
Buhari is completing the project? Lest we forget, the Abuja –
Lokoja road is one of the most important highways in this
country.

“The road connects the South South, the South East, the South
West and part of the North Central to the federal capital
territory, Abuja. It has huge implications for the socio-economic
wellbeing of the people of this country. This road became a conduit
pipe for the PDP government to fleece this country of billions of
naira every year, for one and half decade.

“The Obajana – Kabba road was impassable for over a decade. It
is although less than 60 kilometres, but it links the Kogi west
zone to the rest of the country. Many PDP leaders who rode on the
road to the rally in Lokoja must have been ashamed of themselves to
see the road nearing completion under the APC administration.

“We hope Atiku and his other jokers found time to see the Itakpe
– Warri railway project that was awarded over three decades ago,
which the APC administration has just completed. Did they also see
the Lokoja – Okene highway under construction?

“The PDP needs to be reminded that while it has no antecedents
of completing projects it inherited or initiated from 1999 to 2015
due to the rapacious disposition of its leaders, the APC
administration led by President Muhammadu Buhari, has made it a
cardinal policy to complete abandoned projects it inherited and to
start new ones that have high impact for the economy recovery of
our country.

“We know the PDP leaders didn’t have the time to visit the
market women. They are not in the class of the people they would
like to meet. For 16 years of their ignoble rule, they had nothing
for these market women. Neither did they have for the farmers. We
hope they will find time to visit these very important Nigerians
when next their theatre group stage a drama anywhere in the
country.

“We encourage them to learn from the APC government and take a
few lessons from how the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has been
relating with the common people to feel their pulse. They should
visit these people to see the impact the APC administration’s
social investment programmes are making on the common people.

“All the PDP leaders have been shouting is hunger everywhere
they go. Nigerians understand clearly what this means. The APC
administration has denied the pillagers who have found a home in
PDP access to the resources of this country. In the past, during
the unfortunate reign of PDP, it was the common Nigerians who were
crying of hunger.

“As President Muhammadu Buhari noted, yesterday, during the
inauguration of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, the leaders
of PDP had become used to taking for themselves the resources that
belonged to all of us. Each time these political marauders cry of
hunger, this administration is reassured that we are doing the
right thing. The era when people who are privileged to find
themselves in public office abuse their positions with reckless
abandon has come to an end. Public office shall never be a licence
to our commonwealth.

“Meanwhile, we join the people of this country as they wait for
the next fallacious allegation the sinking PDP would make against
our President, his family members, the Vice President, the national
chairman of our party, and other notable members of our party

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has lambasted the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku
Abubakar.

It said the opposition leaders were in Lokoja, the capital of
Kogi State on Tuesday and made a lot of noise, and left without
making any statement worthy of note.

Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, APC National Publicity Secretary, in a
statement, said the party and Nigerians were wondering how PDP got
to its current level of shamelessness.

The party said it was “shocking to see the few leaders of PDP
who are still showing up in the public for campaign alongside the
discredited Alhaji Atiku, standing before the paltry crowd in the
Lokoja stadium, blowing hot air, stomping the platform, and making
empty promises.

“What did the PDP promise the people of Kogi State? Nothing. It
is that bad. Understandably, it must have been a very difficult
situation for the PDP leaders to face the people of Kogi State to
ask for support to return to power. Perhaps, many of them must have
travelled on the Abuja – Lokoja express road that was awarded in
2001 when Atiku was the Vice President.

“What explanation did they have for the Kogi people on why the
less than 200 kilometres road was not completed for 15 years while
the party was still in power? Did it worry their conscience when
they sighted the Sukuk billboard on the road, showing how President
Buhari is completing the project? Lest we forget, the Abuja –
Lokoja road is one of the most important highways in this
country.

“The road connects the South South, the South East, the South
West and part of the North Central to the federal capital
territory, Abuja. It has huge implications for the socio-economic
wellbeing of the people of this country. This road became a conduit
pipe for the PDP government to fleece this country of billions of
naira every year, for one and half decade.

“The Obajana – Kabba road was impassable for over a decade. It
is although less than 60 kilometres, but it links the Kogi west
zone to the rest of the country. Many PDP leaders who rode on the
road to the rally in Lokoja must have been ashamed of themselves to
see the road nearing completion under the APC administration.

“We hope Atiku and his other jokers found time to see the Itakpe
– Warri railway project that was awarded over three decades ago,
which the APC administration has just completed. Did they also see
the Lokoja – Okene highway under construction?

“The PDP needs to be reminded that while it has no antecedents
of completing projects it inherited or initiated from 1999 to 2015
due to the rapacious disposition of its leaders, the APC
administration led by President Muhammadu Buhari, has made it a
cardinal policy to complete abandoned projects it inherited and to
start new ones that have high impact for the economy recovery of
our country.

“We know the PDP leaders didn’t have the time to visit the
market women. They are not in the class of the people they would
like to meet. For 16 years of their ignoble rule, they had nothing
for these market women. Neither did they have for the farmers. We
hope they will find time to visit these very important Nigerians
when next their theatre group stage a drama anywhere in the
country.

“We encourage them to learn from the APC government and take a
few lessons from how the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has been
relating with the common people to feel their pulse. They should
visit these people to see the impact the APC administration’s
social investment programmes are making on the common people.

“All the PDP leaders have been shouting is hunger everywhere
they go. Nigerians understand clearly what this means. The APC
administration has denied the pillagers who have found a home in
PDP access to the resources of this country. In the past, during
the unfortunate reign of PDP, it was the common Nigerians who were
crying of hunger.

“As President Muhammadu Buhari noted, yesterday, during the
inauguration of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, the leaders
of PDP had become used to taking for themselves the resources that
belonged to all of us. Each time these political marauders cry of
hunger, this administration is reassured that we are doing the
right thing. The era when people who are privileged to find
themselves in public office abuse their positions with reckless
abandon has come to an end. Public office shall never be a licence
to our commonwealth.

“Meanwhile, we join the people of this country as they wait for
the next fallacious allegation the sinking PDP would make against
our President, his family members, the Vice President, the national
chairman of our party, and other notable members of our party