Nigerians may have expected that the bad blood
between the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All
Progressive Congress (APC) would have been laid to rest by now,
following the latter’s victory.
However,
the APC in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja by its national
publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, cautioned President Goodluck
Jonathan against his aides, a copy obtained from Vanguard.
The party urged President Jonathan to call his aides to order and stop them from overheating the polity with their careless statements, especially in regard to the transition of power on May 29.
The APC acknowledged the fact that although the PDP had agreed that it is suffering from ‘post-election (defeat) trauma’, but said that was not a reason to disrupt the nation’s peace by displaying a crab mentality.
The party, which accepted that the PDP may be deeply traumatized by its loss in the recent general elections, described as provocative and ill-intentioned a statement credited to the special adviser to the president on political affairs, Prof. Rufai Alkali.
“Prof. Alkali doesn’t know what he is saying. How does he expect us to plan when the PDP-led FG has bluntly refused to cooperate with us in ensuring a successful transition? As we write, the Transition Committee of the FG has yet to hold a single meeting with our own Transition Committee, neither have they given us a line of handover note. As a matter of fact, the Jonathan Administration has said the handover notes will not be ready until the third week of May, meaning just a week before the handover. What time then do we have to scrutinize the handover notes? How can we plan when we don’t even know which projects they have, which ones they have completed and which ones are outstanding? How can we plan when we don’t even know how many barrels of oil are sold per day?” APC queried
The country’s major opposition party stated that the fact that Prof. Alkali cannot distinguish between the Inauguration Committee and Transition Committee is a display of the mediocrity that floods the Jonathan-led government and which brought its downfall.
“While their Inauguration Committee has been meeting with ours, their Transitional Committee has yet to even meet with ours. How then can Prof. Alkali justify his statement that the Jonathan Administration has been in a ‘transition mode’? Is it part of their transition mode that President Jonathan has been engaged in a rash of feverish last-minute appointments that, though may not have breached any known law, are patently in bad faith, morally repugnant and indecorous. They say they are in office until May 29th, but pray, are appointments the only function of a government? Are there no problems crying for attention, such as the intractable fuel scarcity, the worsening power situation, the grounded economy and the missing Chibok girls? Is it part of their transition mode that Jonathan’s Minister of Power has virtually been reading the riot act to the incoming government, condescendingly warning it not to even consider reversing the power sector privatization because its gains are ”very obvious?” Do they understand the implication of their gratuitous and unsolicited advice? If their power sector reforms have been so successful, would Nigeria’s power situation have hit perhaps its lowest point in a long long time as we have it now?” APC said.
The APC said that in the interests of peace it would not fall into the plot of the Jonathan-led government, since the PDP was determined to provoke the incoming government by creating confusion and even sabotaging the transition.
The party restated its earlier advice to the PDP, by urging them to overcome the election defeat trauma and prepare to be a challenging opposition to the incoming government.
“They must however realize that being in opposition is not a walk in the park but like running a marathon in the desert where there are no oases or shades. The sooner they realize that the better for them,” the APC said.
The PDP has been having an internal crisis since it suffered defeat to the APC presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari in the March 28 presidential election.
The PDP is still finding it difficult to absorb the shock and restrategise on how to make a formidable opposition party to the incoming government of the General Buhari-led APC.
National Secretary of the APC, Lai Mohammed Photo:completenewsng.com
The party urged President Jonathan to call his aides to order and stop them from overheating the polity with their careless statements, especially in regard to the transition of power on May 29.
The APC acknowledged the fact that although the PDP had agreed that it is suffering from ‘post-election (defeat) trauma’, but said that was not a reason to disrupt the nation’s peace by displaying a crab mentality.
The party, which accepted that the PDP may be deeply traumatized by its loss in the recent general elections, described as provocative and ill-intentioned a statement credited to the special adviser to the president on political affairs, Prof. Rufai Alkali.
“Prof. Alkali doesn’t know what he is saying. How does he expect us to plan when the PDP-led FG has bluntly refused to cooperate with us in ensuring a successful transition? As we write, the Transition Committee of the FG has yet to hold a single meeting with our own Transition Committee, neither have they given us a line of handover note. As a matter of fact, the Jonathan Administration has said the handover notes will not be ready until the third week of May, meaning just a week before the handover. What time then do we have to scrutinize the handover notes? How can we plan when we don’t even know which projects they have, which ones they have completed and which ones are outstanding? How can we plan when we don’t even know how many barrels of oil are sold per day?” APC queried
The country’s major opposition party stated that the fact that Prof. Alkali cannot distinguish between the Inauguration Committee and Transition Committee is a display of the mediocrity that floods the Jonathan-led government and which brought its downfall.
“While their Inauguration Committee has been meeting with ours, their Transitional Committee has yet to even meet with ours. How then can Prof. Alkali justify his statement that the Jonathan Administration has been in a ‘transition mode’? Is it part of their transition mode that President Jonathan has been engaged in a rash of feverish last-minute appointments that, though may not have breached any known law, are patently in bad faith, morally repugnant and indecorous. They say they are in office until May 29th, but pray, are appointments the only function of a government? Are there no problems crying for attention, such as the intractable fuel scarcity, the worsening power situation, the grounded economy and the missing Chibok girls? Is it part of their transition mode that Jonathan’s Minister of Power has virtually been reading the riot act to the incoming government, condescendingly warning it not to even consider reversing the power sector privatization because its gains are ”very obvious?” Do they understand the implication of their gratuitous and unsolicited advice? If their power sector reforms have been so successful, would Nigeria’s power situation have hit perhaps its lowest point in a long long time as we have it now?” APC said.
The APC said that in the interests of peace it would not fall into the plot of the Jonathan-led government, since the PDP was determined to provoke the incoming government by creating confusion and even sabotaging the transition.
The party restated its earlier advice to the PDP, by urging them to overcome the election defeat trauma and prepare to be a challenging opposition to the incoming government.
“They must however realize that being in opposition is not a walk in the park but like running a marathon in the desert where there are no oases or shades. The sooner they realize that the better for them,” the APC said.
The PDP has been having an internal crisis since it suffered defeat to the APC presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari in the March 28 presidential election.
The PDP is still finding it difficult to absorb the shock and restrategise on how to make a formidable opposition party to the incoming government of the General Buhari-led APC.
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