PDP MEDIA STATEMENT "A COMPENDIUM OF BEER PARLOUR GOSSIPS' - APC

The All Progressives Congress has said the Peoples Democratic Party as a party cannot provide any worthwhile opposition to the APC-led Federal Government if its spokesperson continues to issue “convoluted and Faustian statements just so that he can be in the news”.
PDP spokesperson, Olisa Metuh, had addressed a press conference Sunday in Abuja where he said President Muhammadu Buhari had embarrassed Nigeria by his actions and utterances during his recent trip to the USA.
Mr. Metuh also said Mr. Buhari and his party, the APC, had so far failed in all aspects of its campaign promises He accused the president and APC of “scamming” Nigerians.

However, APC spokesperson, Lai Mohammed, issued a reaction late on Sunday saying, ”Today’s statement is the most tortuous yet by the PDP and, honestly, sounds more like a compendium of beer parlour gossips and side talks than a serious criticism of a sitting government.
”To be in opposition does not mean you have to constitute yourself to a nuisance by rushing to the press with all sorts of hot air statements. It is the quality, rather than the frequency, of your interventions that makes you relevant as an opposition in a democracy.”
It said in the light of the above, the APC will not dignify the latest in a series of “confused statements” by the PDP with any response.
”We can only say that we have been justified, and indeed prescient, in our earlier offer to organize a crash course for Olisa Metuh so that he can more effectively perform his role as the spokesman of the main opposition party,” Mr. Mohammed said.
”Those who thought we were joking with that offer can now see that indeed, Mr. Metuh is seriously in need of some form of coaching on his new role.”
The party said for the record, no government in Nigeria’s recent history has been as focused and systematic as the one headed by Mr. Buhari in restoring good governance, especially coming after the worst stretch of governance, lasting all of 16 years, by the immoral and reckless PDP.
It is worth noting that even the leader of the world’s foremost democracy, President Barack Obama, said that much during the recent visit to the US of President Buhari, when he described Mr. Buhari as a man of integrity with a clear agenda.
”President Buhari is working hard every day in the priority areas of tackling security and corruption, rebooting the economy to provide jobs for our teeming youths and generally to restore good governance,” the APC said. “We are sorry for those who are too blind with hatred to see this.
”We know that the PDP is terrified by the expose of how the Federal Government it led has looted the treasury and created an environment for impunity to thrive, as well as the fate that will befall those who were part of the show of shame and disgust.
”But we assure Nigerians that this government will not interfere with the work of the security and anti-corruption agencies, and also that under the Buhari Administration, only the guilty needs to be afraid.
”In the meantime, no amount of mumbo jumbo from the PDP will stop the Buhari Administration from its tough but inevitable task of restoring Nigeria’s lost glory.”