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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