The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), on Sunday hit at the main opposition party, PDP, and its 2019 presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in reaction to latter’s recent tweet to his party members ahead of 2023 general elections.
Atiku Abubakar, a former vice president, in a tweet on Saturday, urged members of his party to focus on “rebuilding and strengthening our party for the challenges ahead of us rather focusing on elections at this early period.”
In its reaction issued on Sunday night, APC described the 16 year-rule of the PDP as “an era synonymous with wastefulness and festered corruption, which the country is still struggling with.”
The ruling party also accused the former vice president of “acting in contrast to advice he earlier issued”.
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It said, “Atiku is focusing on how to corner the 2023 presidential ticket of the PDP or any of the other political parties where he may choose to purchase his ticket.”
“Atiku and the PDP represent the wasted past which Nigerians have chosen to discard and correct. The era when national assets were a bazaar for cronies and friends; an era when funds were approved and released for projects that were never executed; an era of waste and impunity; an era of voodoo economy; an era when corruption was a state policy,” the ruling party said.
The APC claimed that “Nigerians now enjoy a new dispensation which has ensured massive infrastructural development covering the rail, road, agriculture, aviation, ports, education and health sectors.”
It also highlighted “stoppage of budget paddling, pruning out thousands of ghost workers, economic diversification, rapid infrastructure development, intensification of fight against violent extremism” as part of President Muhammadu Buhari landmark achievements.
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