APC Faults President Jonathan’s Administration; say it hasn’t Benefited Nigerians
The All Progressives Congress has described the period of the President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration as one of the worst in the nation’s history.
The party also dismissed the scorecard released by the Presidency during his declaration for the second term, measuring his administration’s achievements, tagging it “a scorecard of failure” and “claims of phantom achievements.”
According to a statement signed and released the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Sunday in Abuja, President Jonathan couldn’t amass the support of Nigerians because the people had not felt the positive impact of his government.
The statement said: “Mr. President, Nigerians have asked themselves a simple question: Are we better off today than we were before President Jonathan assumed office, and they have unanimously answered in the negative. This is why your declaration failed to resonate, despite the hired crowds you ferried to Abuja.”
In its own scorecard of the Jonathan administration, the APC said, “Today, after the Jonathan “Administration has spent $32 billion on security and defence, Nigeria is not any safer, with thousands of deaths, 221,000 square kilometres of territory captured by Boko Haram, 650,000 Nigerians internally displaced and also a daily harvest of death from ethno-religious crisis, clashes between pastoralists and farmers, armed robberies and kidnapping.
“To make matters worse, our once proud and globally-acknowledged military has been brought to its knees by lack of necessary fighting equipment, even with $32 billion spent. One wonders where the huge funds went to.”
APC also scored the administration low in the area of job creation, saying: “while the government claimed to have created 1.9 million jobs in all of five years, the truth is that this is a mere tokenism. 1.8 million Nigerians enter the job market every year, 5.3 million youth are unemployed and overall 20 million Nigerians are in the job market, and these are very conservative figures”.
The party also said Nigeria’s corruption rating had worsened since the present administration came into office.
