The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said President Goodluck
Jonathan is handing over a nation in deep crisis, even as his
Administration continues to contrive more crises without making any
effort to solve any of them.
In a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday by its National Publicity
Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party however appealed to Nigerians
not to lose hope, despite the daunting challenges they are currently
facing in this atmosphere of contrived chaos, saying help is on the way.
“In a few days’ time, President Jonathan
will hand over to President-elect Muhammadu Buhari. Never in the history
of our country has any government handed over to another a more
distressed country: No electricity, no fuel, workers are on strike,
billions are owed to state and federal workers, 60 billion dollars are
owed in national debt and the economy is virtually grounded
“Today, Nigerians are roaming the streets,
jerry cans in hand, searching for everything from kerosene to fuel to
diesel to power their homes, keep their vehicles on the road and keep
their businesses going. They are paying as much as 300 Naira per litre
for fuel, if at all they can get it. Yet their government is not saying a
word about the situation,” it said.
APC said while the Jonathan Administration
has arrogantly told Nigerians that it remains in office and in power
till May 29th, all it has been doing is sacking people and making new
appointments as if it had been deprived of the opportunity to do so in
the past six years.
“They are not interested in how to end the
fuel scarcity that has paralyzed the socio-economic lives of Nigerians,
they are not interested in how to raise electricity production from its
unprecedentedly-low level of 1,327 megawatts, they are not doing
anything to end the strike by blue and while collar oil workers, or to
stop the impending one.
”They say they are in office till May 29th,
but they do not care how workers in 18 states, who are owed a total of
300 billion Naira in salaries under their watch, or federal workers who
are owed 400 billion Naira, will be paid. Yet they are running a budget
of 1 trillion Naira deficit.
”They have deliberately stopped meeting
their obligations to oil marketers, which is now around 200 billion
Naira, hence no one is lifting petroleum products anymore. If the
current energy crisis is not solved soonest, the telecommunications
sector could even be grounded in a matter of days as service providers
will have neither electricity nor fuel to power their base stations. Of
course the aviation sector has already been left comatose by the fuel
crisis.
The whole scenario reeks of sabotage!,” the
party said. APC said before PDP and Jonathan Administration’s spin
doctors distort its message, it is important to let Nigerians know that
the party (APC) is not engaging in lamentations but simply keeping the
citizenry informed of the situation on the ground, with just five days
to handover date. ”If we thought the nation was being well managed and
there was no problem, we would not have embarked on a campaign of
change.
While we are ready, willing and able to
begin to address the mammoth challenges facing us as a nation as soon as
we assume office at the centre in a few days’ time, we will not
hesitate for a second to keep Nigerians informed of how we have been
brought to this sorry pass, with a view to avoiding such a tragic turn
in the future,” the party said.
It expressed sadness that the nation has
been on auto pilot for the past several weeks, as the outgoing
administration has shown neither the capacity nor the willingness to
resolve any of the crises it has contrived and foisted on the nation.
”This is the most vivid manifestation of
the old saying that literally translates to a departing office holder
defecating on the chair he is vacating,” APC said.
Alhaji Lai Mohammed
National Publicity Secretary All Progressives Congress (APC)
Abuja, May 24th 2015.
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