The presidency on
Saturday advised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stop playing down
achievements so far recorded by President Muhammadu Buhari.
This is contained in a
statement issued in Abuja by the president’s Senior Special Assistant, Media,
Malam Garba Shehu.
Shehu said the PDP should
rather bury its head in shame for subjecting Nigeria to the ``worst economic
plunder through corruption’’ in its recent history.
Shehu was reacting to the
statement issued by the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, that
``the economy is going down’’ under the All Progressives Congress (APC)
administration.
``It is ridiculous for
any sane government to artificially rebase the economy and claim to transform
Nigeria into the largest economy in Africa as the PDP administration did.’’
He also said that the
defeated former ruling party was artificially manipulating statistics to create
the illusion of impressive economic performance record.
He said if PDP’s claim of
economic successes in terms of GDP, employment generation, poverty alleviation
and others were genuine, Nigerians would not have voted the party out of power.
He said if the former
ruling party was doing well, the opposition parties would have found it
difficult to defeat it.
The president’s aide said
the PDP assumed performance was nothing more than window dressing, and a
detachment from reality.
``Nigerians no longer
face exploitation at filling stations because the government is taking punitive
measures against marketers that punish poor Nigerians.’’
He said queues had
disappeared at the filling stations and the Naira was enjoying favourable
exchange rate.
According to him, the
present administration has successfully blocked leakages and other avenues for
corruption.
He said the administration had also frustrated
efforts by corrupt elements to divert public funds to private pockets.
``Once the formal trial
for corruption begins, the PDP might no longer have the moral legs to stand on.
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