New Year: Don't Make More Promises To Nigerians, They Are Tired Of Your Empty Promises, Lies - PDP Tells APC

President Mohammadu Buhari

Nigeria's main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) not to bother itself issuing any New Year message to Nigerians as the people are now tired of their empty promises as contained in their previous New Year messages since their assumption of office in 2015.

The party emphasized that Nigerians are no longer moved by the litany of empty promises and lies of an 'incompetent and pretentious APC government', adding that it would be the height of callousness for the party and its government to spew another round of propaganda and false hope in the name of New Year message. 

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This was contained in a statement issued Friday December 29, 2017 and signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan.

The statement read: "Every year since 2016, the APC and its Federal Government have been reeling out heaps of promises which they had no intentions to fulfill. Now they are warming up to reel out fresh ones in January 2018.

"What seriousness should any Nigerian attach to a government that takes governance for granted, puts off its Federal Executive meeting at the slightest whims and blame imaginary invasion of its offices by rats for the inability to meet required statutory functions?

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"What else should Nigerians expect from a government that promised massive employment only to render 7.74 million Nigerians jobless between 2016 and September 2017; with combined unemployment and underemployment rate hitting 40.0% as declared by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). 

The PDP also blame the APC for subjecting Nigerians to untold hardship which made them to turn to the Ponzi scheme, Mavrodi Mundial Movement (MMM)  for survival but lose their life savings in the process. 

"What do you expect from a government that so devastated the economy in 2017 that Nigerians were forced to turn to ponzi schemes like the Mavrodi Mundial Movement (MMM) for survival only for an estimated three million of them to lose about N18 billion in the process. 

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"The APC misrule literally turned 2017 into a harvest of woes, hunger, disease, violence and deaths while the nation is now being 
Pummeled by ethnic and religious agitations and attendant violence in all parts of the country. 

"Nigerians suffered strange diseases, businesses were shut; hardship and poverty swelled mortality and divorce rates while the APC continues to thrive on propaganda and lies. 

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"Measured against all key performance indicators, the APC controlled Federal Government has fallen below the expectations of Nigerians", the statement add.