The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples
Democratic Party says the lingering fuel scarcity is the first Christmas
gift to the people of Lagos by the All Progressives Congress.
The Publicity Secretary of Lagos PDP, Mr. Taofik Gani, said this during an interview with our correspondent on Wednesday.
Gani recalled that in his Christmas
message last year, President Muhammadu Buhari, who was the presidential
candidate of the APC at the time, promised Nigerians that that would be
their last Christmas in darkness.
The PDP spokesman, however, said since
Buhari took over nearly seven months ago, things had deteriorated as
petrol had become scarce.
He said, “The first Christmas that
Nigerians, especially Lagosians, will mark under the APC will go down in
history as one of the worst due to the worsening fuel scarcity. The
electricity supply which President Buhari promised last year has not
come to pass and those who want to use generators cannot make use of
generators as filling stations are not dispensing fuel in jerry cans.”
Gani slammed the Minister of Information
and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, for blaming former President Goodluck
Jonathan for the fuel scarcity.
Mohammed, while addressing journalists
on the fuel scarcity, had said on Monday that Nigerians “are paying for
the past administration’s sins”
Gani, however, said, “Nigerians know
that it is not true that Jonathan is the reason why everything has gone
worse under Buhari. The APC has the tendency to claim Jonathan’s
achievements but blame him for its inefficiencies.
“A few weeks after President Buhari
assumed power, he took credit for the improvement in the power sector,
saying that his body language had evoked change when everyone knew that
it was Jonathan’s achievement.
“Now that Nigerians are groaning, the APC is blaming Jonathan. You cannot have your cake and eat it.
In a separate message, the Lagos State
chapter of the APC, however, said Lagosians should spend Christmas with
the hope that things would improve in 2016.
The Lagos APC in a statement by its
Publicity Secretary, Mr. Joe Igbokwe, wished Lagosians a fun-filled
celebration in the midst of tight economic conditions, saying the
country would soon emerge stronger from its present challenges.
The statement read in part, “While we
acknowledge the strictures imposed on Nigerians by the harsh economic
realities occasioned by dwindling economic prospects and the past
Federal Government’s brazen corruption, we feel Lagosians have every
reason to celebrate and make merry given the monumental achievements the
state has recorded in recent years.”
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