of a feud between its leaders, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, saying the PDP and the presidency had been peddling lies over a phantom feud because they could not fathom how the leadership of the APC could put national interest above personal considerations.
‘’Mr President, don’t let your lick-spittle aides deceive you.
There is absolutely no feud between the two leaders. Waiting for such a feud is like ‘Waiting for Godot’,’’ it said.
The president was also challenged to seek libel damages against its chairman, Chief Bisi Akande for describing his presidency as kindergarten if he felt strongly about it.
The opposition party which was obviously responding to the threat by the presidency to sue Akande over the characterisation, equally pooh-poohed the experience of Jonathan in different public offices, saying his ascension to the presidency from deputy governor was pure luck and destiny.
A statement issued in Accra on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed claimed Akande merely told the truth by his characterisation of the Jonathan presidency, adding ‘’Isn’t truth a defence to libel?’’
It also said there was nothing strange or wrong in criticizing a democratically-elected President, since he was neither an Imperial President, a Monarchy nor an Emperor.
APC said nothing confirmed Akande’s assertion that Jonathan was running a kindergarten presidency than the crude manner it (presidency) responded to the APC National Chairman’s comment.
‘’In the true character of this presidency, its increasingly irreverent and undignified spokesman failed to respond to the issues raised by Chief Akande, and instead chose to haul abuses at a man who is old enough to be his father. Such irresponsible act does no credit to the spokesman or the president he is serving, and Nigerians will definitely not forget such crudity in a hurry.
‘’Where is the presidency’s response to Chief Akande’s assertion that he has written two letters to the President over the serious challenges facing the country, without getting a response?
Where is the presidency’s response to Chief Akande’s assertion that President Jonathan is witch-hunting political opponents? These are the issues that Nigerians are interested in, not how many hours the President sleeps at night because he is supposedly working tirelessly.
“In any case, if indeed this President is working tirelessly, we need to ask who he is working for, because Nigerians have yet to feel the impact of his administration.
They are also not interested in the fact that the President once served as a deputy governor, governor and vice president, because the experiences he supposedly garnered from doing so have not impacted positively on his duty as President. That’s not a surprise, considering that the President owes his meteoric rise in politics to luck and destiny. Nothing else!’’ the party said.
It added that ‘’As the presidency was composing its empty response to the serious issues raised by our highly-respected Chairman, the African Development Bank was saying in its annual report (African Economic Outlook), quoted by the local media on Sunday, that the proportion of people (Nigerians) living below the national poverty line has worsened from 65.5 per cent in 1996 to 69.0 per cent in 2010, most of those years under the PDP and the last four under President Jonathan.
“What therefore is there to celebrate in a presidency under which power generation has fallen to 2,500MW? What is there to celebrate in a presidency that has only given Nigerians widespread insecurity, unemployment, dilapidated infrastructure, oil theft and unbridled corruption.
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I think opponenent's supporters are the ones trying to stir up feud btw these two leaders. There is no need for it, we don't have to practise dirty politics all the time.
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