Abuja: The former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has lambasted the All Progressives Congress led government for failing in its promises to Nigerians before it seized power in 2015.
The former Vice President who was speaking Saturday in Abuja during the Peoples Democratic Party’s National Convention, maintained that the country has experienced darker days during APC short time in office than PDP’s 16 years.
He urged the party to unite in order to secure the trust of Nigerians, saying that the country under the APC is failing to work.
“Now we must unite as a party to secure the trust of the Nigerian people again because under the APC Nigeria is not working and our people are not working.
“Let us consider what the APC has achieved versus what they promised at election time:
“The APC promised us three million new jobs a year; in Government the APC has lost us three million jobs a year
“The APC promised us peace and unity; Under the APC Nigeria is now more divided and acrimonious than at any time since the civil war
“The APC promised us restructuring. In office the APC denied restructuring.
“The APC promised a war on corruption but all they have delivered is a war on the opposition, with handouts for their cronies and handcuffs for their opponents.
The Waziri of Adamawa further compared the record of the APC in Government to the record of the PDP in Government, saying that “We, the PDP, achieved a 10-year increase in the life expectancy of our people. We, the PDP, enabled 99 million more of our people to have a mobile phone.
“We, the PDP helped Nigeria become the largest economy in Africa
“In the 16 years that we governed this nation we kept it united, peaceful and prosperous.
We made mistakes, but we put our nation first.
We did not favour only states that voted for us and punish those that did not. We favoured all.
“We now have an APC government, which continues to blame previous governments and scapegoat people rather than solve problems it was elected to solve”.
He called on the party to ensure that the right leaders are elected in order to get the PDP on winning ways so that Nigeria can working again.
