By Seyi Babalola
The Presidency has lambasted the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for not finding anything positive in President Bola Tinubu’s government, saying the president won’t change his team, which has been responsible for the country’s great turnaround.
Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, said in a statement on Thursday night that the PDP emerged from its National Executive Council meeting throwing tantrums against the ruling All Progressives Congress and President Tinubu, accusing the president and his party of all the (PDP)’s notorious inadequacies during its 16-year reign until it was forced out of power in 2015.
“We believe the party’s NEC members must have been habiting another planet, as all the accusations contradicted the reality on ground and completely ignored the stellar achievements recorded by the Tinubu Administration in less than one year.
“Unlike the PDP administration of 16 years, the Tinubu administration has been confronting the problems of our country headlong, moving for an audacious reset that will firmly put our country on a solid economic pedestal.
“The results are already showing. Contrary to the pessimism and wishes of some PDP leaders, the National Currency has become the world’s best-performing, appreciating by almost 50 percent against the dollar in a few weeks. The exchange rate is stabilising as convergence has been reached between the official and so-called parallel markets. The contrived pall of gloom cast over our nation has faded out and renewed hope is now on the leash”, he said.
According to Onanuga, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised Nigeria’s growth prediction for this year from 2.9 percent to 3.3 percent due to the good trend generated by the APC economic strategy.
According to him: “The administration is targeting a higher growth with its plans to embark on audacious infrastructure projects, such as the Badagry-Sokoto Highway and the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway. The latter has attracted an unwarranted attack by one of the PDP leaders, blinded by the huge economic benefits of the highway project.
“No thanks PDP! The President’s economic team is doing well and no sane government will change a winning team, that is working in sync with the advisory of the private sector, state governors, and economic gurus in the country.
“It was surprising that the PDP under whose watch Boko Haram was born in 2009 and worse of all, which looted the billions of dollars earmarked to equip our armed forces and the police, could so unabashedly blame the Tinubu administration for what it wrongly termed increasing spate of terrorism and banditry.
“This is far from the truth. Security has improved, with fewer cases of terrorist attacks and banditry recorded. In recent weeks, over a thousand kidnapped victims, some whose kidnapping antedated this government were rescued by our gallant armed forces, without government paying any ransom.
“The PDP is advised to harmonise its home first, rather than accusing President Tinubu of trying to entrench one party state. President Tinubu nurses no such plan as it only exists in the imagination of the opposition PDP”, Onanuga added.
