PDP challenges federal government to publish expenses since May 29.

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to publish Federal Government’s expenditure since he assumed office on May 29, 2015.

But the All Progressives Congress (APC), in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, described the PDP as lacking in capacity to provide “worthwhile opposition.” Mohammed advised the opposition to desist from issuing hollow statements just to be in the news.
The PDP condemned President Buhari’s alleged statement that development projects in any part of the country would be based on the 2015 Presidential election-voting pattern.


At a press conference addressed by its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, in Abuja, the opposition accused the APC-led Federal government of displaying crass inexperience in handling state matters, just as it described the President’s visit to the United States as “yet another miscarried cosmetic intervention to hide government’s inefficiency and inability to face the real business of governance.”

The PDP scribe urged the Federal Government to get more serious with the business of governance, particularly the anti-terror war, which, it noted, has increased in the last few weeks.

It stated: “It is disheartening that, rather than secure any sort of tangible gain for the fight against terrorism, which has lost steam under the APC watch, with insurgents, who were pushed to the verge of surrender by the Goodluck Jonathan administration, now surging back and spreading into the country, we get nothing but exchanges and disagreements between the Presidency and their American hosts. This is not only embarrassing but also worrisome indication of crass ineptitude in the handling of international affairs on the part of the present administration.


“We urge the APC-led administration to settle down, put its acts together and get determined, without further excuse, to face the fight against insurgency with every sense of seriousness, especially given President Buhari’s promise in his April 2, 2015 CNN interview to end the scourge two months after his inauguration, which is by the end of this month.”