Buhari has already surpassed Jonathan’s achievements – APC

The All Progressives Congress says President
Muhammadu Buhari has already surpassed President
Goodluck Jonathan’s achievements in the area of
fighting insecurity.
The National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, said in a statement that Buhari had done
in three weeks what Jonathan could not do in six years.
The party said the Peoples Democratic Party-led
Federal Government could not get world powers to help
Nigeria in fighting terrorism. It said within a short time,
the Buhari administration would wipe out terrorism
The statement read, “Within three weeks of President
Buhari’s inauguration, he has done what the PDP
government could not do in six years: Invigorate the
fight against Boko Haram by rallying a regional and
global front against the terror group.
“Today, the United States has pledged $5 million to the
fight against Boko Haram, in addition to other material
support. This is apart from the support that has been
pledged by the G-7 to strengthen Nigeria’s efforts to
quell the insurgency.
“Thanks to President Buhari’s shuttle diplomacy, the
Multi-National Joint Task Force that the PDP
government could not bring together for all of six years
is ready to deploy more soldiers next month, while the
President has ordered the release of $21m to facilitate
the establishment of the headquarters of the force in
N’Djamena, Chad.”
The APC said Buhari had been able to restore Nigeria’s
integrity and that many countries were beginning to
respect Nigeria again.
It said the PDP-led Federal Government politicised the
fight against terrorism and that was why it failed to
protect Nigeria’s integrity.
The statement added, “Since assuming office about
three weeks ago, President Buhari has visited Chad,
Niger, Germany and South Africa, winning support and
friends for Nigeria all over again and returning the
country to the comity of respected nations.
“Those who were put off by the PDP government’s
resort to politicising the fight against Boko Haram –
even as the insurgents grew stronger – are now joining
President Buhari to battle the terrorists. In no distant
future, the results of his tireless efforts will begin to
show.”
The party said even though Buhari was far older than
Jonathan, he was already doing better than him.
It said Buhari was already assembling a team of highly
skilled professionals that would help him to implement
his promise of change.
It said, “On the domestic front, President Buhari has
been handling pressing issues far away from the klieg
light, and his efforts to assemble a first-class team to
implement his change mantra, which he is personally
driving, are continuing apace.
“We in the APC are sure most unbiased Nigerians are
very proud of President Buhari and the vigour he has
shown in governance, the kind of vigour we did not see
in the immediate past administration that was presided
over by a far younger man.”
The APC said only anarchists and non-democrats
would ask a President who has not spent one month in
office to resign.
It said the PDP had no moral right to criticise the APC
within less than month of Buhari’s administration since
the PDP had failed to make any meaningful change in
Nigeria despite being the party to have ruled Nigeria the
longest – 16 years.
However, the PDP charged the APC and the Presidency
to stop making mockery of governance with premature
celebration of imaginary achievements.
The PDP said it was embarrassing that the APC and
aides to President Buhari had decided to invade the
minds of Nigerians with propaganda instead of
assisting the President, who was inaugurated three
weeks ago, to settle down, form a government and
deliver on his campaign promises to the electorates.
The opposition party wondered why it was difficult for
the APC-led Federal Government to appoint even a
Secretary to the Government of the Federation and the
Chief of Staff to the President.
The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa
Metuh, in a statement in Abuja, said the nation and
democrats world over were thoroughly embarrassed by
the alleged achievements claimed by the APC.
He said this action had further exposed the APC’s lack
of capacity and direction as well as its inability to draw
a line between propaganda by an opposition party and
dissemination of credible information as a party in
government.
Metuh said, “How can a serious government start
shouting achievements and make bogus claims on the
fight against terrorism when the effort is apparently
losing steam as insurgents, who had already been
pushed to the verge of surrender in the Sambisa forest
by the (ex-President) Goodluck Jonathan
administration are now surging back into the country
under the APC-led government?
“How can a serious government shout achievement
based on pledges by foreign interests, a dangerous
slide towards neo-colonialism, instead of settling down
to galvanise bequeathed resources and potential that
have already placed our great country as one of the
fastest emerging economic and political powers in the
world?
“How can a serious government shout achievement and
attempt to explain away the untidy fact that after three
weeks, it has not been able to organise itself even to
take basic steps of conventional appointments, such as
Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief of
Staff to the President and advisers in key sectors of the
economy?”
He wondered what the APC was celebrating, alleging
that due to its naivety and delays, key sectors of the
nation’s economy were allegedly drifting dangerously
with “a perilous crippling of foreign and domestic
investments, including activities in the money and
capital market sectors.”
Metuh said that the APC should not by any means
attempt to use its flimsy list to divert attention from its
numerous campaign promises for which the people will
be holding the party accountable.
“Finally, we advise the Presidential spokespersons to
allow Nigerians to judge the President as events and
time will prove exactly the taste of the old wine,” Metuh
added.