Jonathan Handing Over A Nation In Crises, APC Cries Out

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 saidd
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