APC Cautions President Jonathan

The feud between PDP and APC seems to have taken a new dimension as APC cautions President Jonathan to stop his aides from overheating the polity.

National Secretary of the APC, Lai Mohammed Photo:completenewsng.com

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 regards to the transition of power on May 29, 2015.
APC acknowledged the fact that although the PDP had agreed that its suffering from ‘post-election (defeat) trauma’, but was not a reason to disrupt the nation’s peace by displaying crab mentality.
The party which accepted that the PDP may be deeply traumatized by its loss in the last general elections, remarked that it was provocative and ill-intentioned the statement credited to the Special Adviser to the President on Political Affairs, Prof. Rufai Alkali.
Prof. Alkali was quoted to have said that the APC should talk less and plan more for the nation, and that the party is trying to stampede the President out of office.
“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 Inauguration Committee and Transition Committee is a display of mediocrity that floods the Jonathan-led government 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 assured that for the interest of peace, it would not fall into the plot of Jonathan-led government, since the PDP is 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,” APC said.
The PDP has been having 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 General Buhari-led APC.