The main opposition political party in Nigeria, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has condemned General Muhammadu Buhari’s led administration for destroying every sector of the nation’s national life, accusing the president and his political party of encouraging terrorism in the country.
“Furthermore, the compromises of the APC administration have led to the escalation of terrorist activities, banditry, kidnapping, killings, bloody agitations as well as other acts of violence that have turned our nation into a large funeral palour, with no hope in sight”, the Party claimed.
According to the Party in a statement, the “Buhari’s Presidency and APC have in the last six years, only succeeded in destroying every sector of our national life with their manifest incompetence, unbridled corruption, treasury looting, impunity, exclusionist and restrictive economic policies that have brought our nation to her knees”.
The statement pointed out that in 2015, the PDP Government handed over a robust economy with Fitch B+ rating and Gross Domestic Produce (GDP) of $574 billion to Buhari, adding, “Sadly, in the last six years, Buhari’s administration has reduced our productive sectors to a complete wreckage with alarming 33.3 percent unemployment and 17.38 percent inflation rates; over 60 million hitherto flourishing businesses folded up and the naira crashing from N167 to a dollar in 2015 to N512 under the APC corrupt and directionless watch”.
The statement stated, “More depressing is that the corrupt APC administration has practically erased all the gained of the debt repayment achieved by the PDP returned our nation to a beggar state and mortgaged the sovereignty of our country with reckless borrowing and accumulated N33.107 trillion”.
It stated further, “Life has become so unbearable in Nigeria under President Buhari and APC that more than 82.9 million Nigerians are no longer able to afford their daily meals and other necessities of life, with our nation now ranking as poverty capital of the world and 98th out of 107 in Global Hunger Index”.
“Today, under the APC, a liter of fuel which sold for N87 under the PDP now sells for N165, a bag of rice which sold for N8,000 now sells for N30,000, a measure of garri and beans which sold for N150 and N250 now sell for N600 and N800 respectively; a measure of maize and guinea corn which sold for about N150 now sells for N400, a kilo of meat which sold for about N800 now sells for about N2,300 while a 12.5 kg of cooking gas which sold for N3,000 now sells for over N6,000, all thanks to the incompetence and corruption of the Buhari and APC administration”, the opposition party added.
