Presidency attacks PDP governors for twisting facts about Buhari’s govt

The Presidency has berated the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), for allegedly misrepresenting facts about the country’s economic and sociopolitical history.

Reacting to a recent communiqué issued by PDP Governors’ Forum on the state of affairs across the country, the Presidency noted that the opposition party’s leaders played the ostrich by attempting to indict President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in its handling of the economy, while leaving a critical element, like the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The PDP governors recently met in Umuobiakwa community of Abia State where it dissected, among other things, national issues, and issued a communiqué, which indicted the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration over the state of the economy, security, infrastructure, among others.

The opposition governors concluded that the ruling party is not fit to run the country any further.

But in a statement in Abuja by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, the Presidency said: “The rejected PDP’s fantasy communiqué is a work of fiction by those who truly believe black is white and one plus one equals three.

“This statement of the delusional seeks to cover up the serial and criminal failures of the PDP’s long and damaging period in office, which the Muhammadu Buhari administration and APC have striven these past seven years to repair.

“We cannot forget that under the PDP, the nation had an army full of phantom soldiers whose pay went to PDP politicians’ pockets while our under-resourced real soldiers died in the fight against terrorist, insurgents, and our international allies refused to supply Nigeria kit and military aid.