The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of being responsible for Nigeria’s economic woes.
In a post shared on its official twitter handle on Thursday, the leading opposition party also said the All Progressives Congress, APC, was peddling cooked-up performance indices.
The party also told the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed that he would fail in his attempt to censor the media.
It wrote, “You Can’t Censor The Media, PDP Tells Lai Mohammed …Insists FG, APC Peddling Cooked-Up Performance Indices.
“Nigerians know that the @APCNigeria has failed and the @MBuhari-led Presidency is directly responsible for the collapse of our economy, which was thriving under the PDP.”
Mr Secondus had earlier told the ruling party that it would face “tsunami” of defection to PDP.
Recall that on Tuesday, the Federal Government through the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, had appealed to the media to see the present Administration as a victim of years of maladministration, not culprit.
The Minister said when the Administration took over power in 2015, it met almost an empty treasury with a combination of factors like crash in price of crude, recession, decay in infrastructure among others.
He said with right policies and fiscal discipline the government brought the country out of recession and had raised its foreign reserve above 43 billion dollar.
The Minister said the Policy of Ease of Doing Business is working and the Administration’s agricultural revolution is moving Nigeria close to self-sufficiency in rice.
He said the Home-Grown School Feeding Programme had created jobs for 61,352 cooks, and it is providing 6.4million school children in 33,981 schools across 20 states with one meal a day.
Mohammed said the administration inherited power generation of 2,690 MW even when over 16 billion dollar had been spent on power reforms.
He said with the efforts of the government, power generation has increased to 7,000 megawatts and the administration’s is embarking on a massive infrastructural development.
Mohammed said that Boko Haram had been massively degraded and the suicide attacks by the hitherto emboldened group were act of defeat and cowardice.
He said the era of impunity was over and the corrupt elements in the society were those leading the criticism and campaign of calumny against the government.
The Minister noted that his position should not be misunderstood as giving excuses, saying that the government would remain focus and committed to delivering dividends of democracy.
He said the government was conscious of the fact that democracy cannot thrive without press freedom, and reiterated the position of government not to stifle press freedom.
