Former vice president and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday described the All Progressives Congress regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), as clueless and directionless.
According to him, the current upheaval in the country resulting from the Federal Government’s poorly implemented naira redesign policies is one example of the ruling party’s failure.
Atiku, in a statement on Thursday, maintained that the APC was not prepared for leadership when it took over power in 2015.
He said, ”Recently millions of Nigerians have fallen into intense anger due to a move by the Central Bank of Nigeria to hurl new bank notes. As a result, uproar ensued at some bank branches and some bankers have had to contend with confrontation from enraged youths in desperation to get the new Naira notes.
“It is easy for political expediency for the APC that has brought us to this cul de sac to want to hoodwink Nigerians into believing that the crisis was created by others.
“Truth be told, the crisis that the country is witnessing today was conceived, given birth to and nurtured by the ruling APC, which, indeed, was long in coming.
“We are all witnesses to the myriad of problems that Nigerians have had to endure as a result of the cluelessness of the APC, which came into government with no idea of a policy direction.
“We are witnesses to the massive erosion of jobs; hunger and multi-dimensional poverty; unabated fuel scarcity; deteriorating security that has created an industry of kidnapping and massacre of defenceless citizens; free fall of the naira; ASUU strike which kept students at home for prolonged periods of time and a general sense of hopelessness.”
Atiku said the APC must take responsibility for the hardship being experienced by Nigerians.
He expressed condolences to those who lost loved ones and property to the violence that has engulfed the country in the wake of the new naira crisis. Atiku urged Nigerians to calm down and get ready to vote out the APC in the February 25 presidential election.
“That’s the only way to safeguard our collective efforts to recover and rebuild Nigeria,” he said.
Source: The Punch
