President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration and his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have been accused by the APC Presidential Campaign Organization, APCPCO, of turning the main opposition party into a whipping boy as a way of diverting attention from the ruling government’s woeful failures and broken promises.
Making this accusation in a press statement issued yesterday in Abuja by the Director of Media and Publicity of APCPCO, Malam Garba Shehu, the organization held that it was amused by the PDP national chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu’s allegations that the opposition is behind the current fuel scarcity in the country.
Shehu argued that any ruling party which could brazenly lie through its teeth in order to mislead Nigerians automatically lacks the credibility to seek re-election.
He explained that the marketers accused the PDP government of owing them N250billion fuel subsidy, and because they had run out of line of credit, they had no choice but to stop the importation of fuel.
The APCPCO further stated that the marketers also blamed the devaluation of the nation’s currency, which they regretted has made importation to be unprofitable.
Shehu further stated that since the APC is not in power, it could not have been responsible for the current hardships facing Nigerians, including declining living standards, erratic power supply, fuel scarcity, poverty, unemployment and other harsh conditions imposed on Nigerians by Jonathan’s government.
The party in the statement advised President Jonathan to find an urgent solution to the current fuel scarcity, which is complicating the existing hardships of the ordinary Nigerians, instead of looking for someone to blame.
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