Economic Hardship: You’re Morally, Politically Unfit To Point Fingers, APC Replies PDP

The ruling All Progressive s Congress (APC) yesterday fired back at the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for claiming it has destroyed the economy and institutions built during its 16-year reign.

In a communiqué at the end of its meeting in Enugu on Wednesday, the PDP Governors’ Forum blamed the Bola Tinubu government’s economic policy for the widespread poverty in the country.

However, the APC said the opposition party lacked the moral and political right to point “their scabby political fingers at the APC because it “ did not and could not initiate, let alone deliver, in all of its desolate 16 years in government”.

In a statement by spokesman Felix Morka, it said: “In yet another histrionic outburst, governors elected on the platform of the PDP have accused the APC of destroying the economy and institutions ‘built’ in its 16 years of misrule.

“The governors made these blatantly denialist statements following the recent epochal Supreme Court decision that granted financial autonomy to local government councils.

“It is a sad irony that PDP governors who congregated to discuss the newly won financial autonomy of local governments, the most remarkable breakthrough in democratic transformation in our country since 1999, ended their meeting pointing their scabby political fingers at the APC government that accomplished a reform that the PDP did not and could not initiate, let alone deliver, in all of its desolate 16 years in government.

PDP Governors are bare – faced heirs of a legacy of sleaze and ruin, morally and politically unfit to point fingers. “By their statement, it is now obvious that the PDP Governors lack understanding of their place and responsibility in our system of government.

“They do not understand the seriousness of the responsibility that they bear as chief executives of their states to justify the resources at their disposal to build and bolster their domestic economies for the good of their people.