Your 16-year Rule Messy; You Can’t Comment On Economic Challenges – Oyegun Slams Pdp

BEVERLY HILLS, August 19, (THEWILL) – The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun on Thursday came hard on the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which he said, lacks the moral latitude to comment on Nigeria's present economic ordeal after its “messy” 16-year stay in power.

Oyegun noted, in a statement, that Nigerians who are now bearing the brunt of the economy that was mindlessly mismanaged by the PDP, cannot forget in a hurry that about $15 billion was mismanaged under the guise of the equipping the military, adding that the amount is about half of the foreign reserves left by the PDP-led Federal Government.

He then declared that it was “downright immoral” for the PDP to now present itself as the saviour of Nigerians, adding that “What is happening now is clear: Just because the farmer has not checkmated the thief, he (thief) has become so emboldened that he is now making a move to even cage the farmer from whom he has been stealing.”

The statement read in part: “How else can one characterize the most annoying statement by the PDP that it is on a mission to rescue Nigeria, the tale of a killer presenting himself as a life saver! Are these people jokers? Do they think Nigerians do not realize that the stage for today's tough economic situation was set by the same PDP that is now masquerading as a saviour? Worse still, is this PDP's bold face not a ploy to distract the Administration that is on a rescue mission?

“Nigeria is currently in ICU (Intensive Care Unit), after it was rescued from PDP. Yet, the same PDP has the audacity to constantly pillory the 'doctors' trying to save the 'patient'.

“Yes, we knew the situation was bad, but we never imagined that it was this bad. Yes, we knew that the vast majority of our national patrimony had been stolen and converted by PDP and their cronies, but we clearly under-estimated the scope of the stealing. The fact that our country and people survived the PDP and the last administration is perhaps the 8th wonder of the world.

“But we have long moved beyond bothering about this mindless party to seeking to bring the nation back to its feet. What we cannot fathom is for the same PDP to now be heckling us and pretending to be the new saviour of Nigerians.

“Engaging in a campaign of calumny by claiming that the country's economy under President Muhammadu Buhari was deteriorating is so unconscionable on the part of the PDP, which frittered away the huge windfall that the nation earned during the years that oil sold for over $100. Even with the number of PDP operatives and officials who have confessed or admitted their complicity in the looting of the treasury, the party has continued to try to pull the wool over the face of Nigerians.

“This shameless distraction must stop forthwith, and here is serving notice that henceforth, the PDP will no longer have a field day in trying to twist facts and present the Buhari Administration, which is on an urgent rescue mission, as the villain.”