A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain and member of the Abia state Advisory Council, Alhaji Suleiman Ukandu has taken a swipe at President Muhammadu Buhari over claim that successive PDP-led federal governments failed to improve on the nation’s infrastructure.
Ukandu, who spoke with newsmen on Tuesday, in Umuahia, claimed that 80 per cent of the projects that are ongoing and executed by the Buhari-led administration were initiated by then ruling PDP.
He lambasted the President over his assertion and accused him of being economical with the truth.
Ukandu said, “I see him and his administration as people who are running away from their responsibilities.
“Nigerians are aware that the infrastructures that are operational now in the country, are the ones put in place by the past administrations from 1999 till now.
“If you look at the economic blueprint of Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, he brought direct foreign investment into this country during his administration. His government brought about a lot of revolution that we are seeing today in ICT in this country, and telecommunications industries.
“What Obasanjo did in Bureau for Public Enterprise, in ensuring the country diversified economically. This gave way for the reformations in Banking industry, that has fortified the capital intensity of banks in the country.
“We go to former president Musa Yar’Adua, his seven point agenda. It is not a hidden thing,everybody noticed his seven point agenda as it touches on Niger Delta transformation.
“We go to Goodluck Jonathan’s industrial revolution and social amenity transformation. We can notice it from the revitalization of our transport sector.
The PDP stalwart continued, “What Buhari says he is commissioning is an already foundation laid by PDP governments over the years, both the railway, the air transport. All these things were planned and put into near completion by the Jonathan administration.
“The reformation we had in INEC, Buhari administration want to kill now, by employing their brothers and sisters into INEC, was really done by the past government.
“You see the World digit Montoring transaction of the federal government, in form of TSA, were put in place by the former government. All the economic blueprints to which Buhari is operating now, they all metamorphosed from what Jonathan has already put in place.
“I don’t think the APC-led government actually knows what they are saying or if they know, they are trying to be economical with the truth. And you know, it’s a party and government that came into power through propaganda and unnecessary drafted conspiracy theory,” Ukandu added.
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