APC tackles PDP for blaming stampedes on Tinubu’s policies
The ruling All Progressives Congress on Monday chided the Peoples Democratic Party for attempting to play politics with the recent stampedes that claimed many lives in Ibadan, Oyo State, Abuja and Anambra during food distribution events.
The warning was issued in a statement issued in Abuja by the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Felix Morka.
Morka was reacting to Sunday’s allegation by the opposition PDP that the avoidable incidents were a ‘testament of the alarming level of misery, poverty, starvation and desperation for survival’ under President Bola Tinubu-led APC government.
Reacting, the ruling party said it was astounded that at such a moment of national grief, the PDP chose to engage in ‘callous political chicanery.’
The APC spokesman also argued that Nigerians had not forgotten the tragic stampede at the ill-fated Nigerian Immigration Service recruitment exercise at the Abuja stadium, under the watch of the PDP administration, that left many desperate job seekers dead and scores injured in 2014.
“Rather than genuinely commiserate with the victims and their families, the PDP chose to politicise the grief of the victims by blaming the stampedes on the APC-led administration of President Bola Tinubu. The tragedies have brought together well-meaning Nigerians in mourning and sober reflection on how the incidents might have been avoided through better planning and organisation by all involved.
“The PDP’s allegations only remind us of its sordid record of maladministration and utter incompetence in 2014. The PDP is either mischievous or totally out of touch with reality to suggest that President Bola Tinubu-led administration has not shown commitment to Nigerians’ welfare. Laughably, the PDP claimed that APC’s policies ruptured a ‘once thriving economy’.
“For years, successive PDP administrations operated a phantom economy wired with complex distortions and suffocating corruption while deluding Nigerians into thinking that the economy was healthy. Changing course away from the lies and deception of the PDP, the economy is rebounding steadily now as reforms continue to yield wholesome dividends,” Morka stated.
