ERGP comment: Bill Gates just being polite on APC failure ―PDP

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the verdict by Bill
Gates that the execution of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Economic
Recovery and Growth Plan (ERPG) does reflect the needs of Nigerians
is just being a polite declaration on the failure of the
administration but has vindicated the opposition’s position that
the government has failed.According to the opposition party, the
government’s economic policies are anti-people and have
strengthened Nigerians’ resolve to kick out “the dysfunctional All
Progressives Congress (APC) and its Federal Government come
2019.”

According to a statement issued by PDP National Publicity
Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja on Friday, the verdict of
the Co-Chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has also
vindicated its stand that “the Buhari administration is the worst
in the history of our nation; that it never had the interest of the
people at heart but has been lying to Nigerians with false
performance indices and cosmetic appearances, while its agents
continue to siphon funds meant for the welfare of the people.”

The PDP said President Buhari and the APC can now see that the
entire world is fully aware of their misrule and as such should
stop wasting the nation’s resources on pointless image laundering
and desperate quest for international endorsements.

It added: “What Gates did not tell President Buhari and his team
was that their administration is so incompetent, disorganized and
confused that it could not develop any functional economic policy
direction and that this has caused our nation her current economic
woes.

“Bill Gates comments on the Federal Government’s empty,
deceptive and discredited Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP),
right in the Presidential Villa and in the presence of Vice
President Yemi Osinbajo, came to President Buhari and the APC as
stunt gone awry as they had planned to use the world figure to earn
an undue international endorsement ahead of 2019 elections

“More disheartening is that instead of being remorseful,
officials of the APC administration, including Prof. Osinbajo, are
attempting to put up a lame defence, despite the indicting
facts.

“The whole world is sad that under President Buhari and the APC,
our dear nation, which was hitherto one of the most vibrant
economies, has now become one of the most dangerous places to give
birth, with the fourth-worst maternal mortality rate in the
world.

“This administration, in the last three years, has not been able
to initiate any functional policy on health, education, housing,
agriculture, electricity, industrial growth, effective economic
empowerment and gainful employment, or any deliberate plan to grow
a sustainable middle class in the country.

“Instead, what Nigerians get is a sinking economy resulting from
anti-people policies; multiple taxations, increased tariffs on
essential commodities and services, increase in food prices, fuel
price hike, huge foreign debts, a weakened currency and massive job
loss while APC interests continue to fritter away trillions of
naira for their selfish gains.

“It is obvious that this Buhari administration derives joy in
seeing Nigerians suffer hunger and starvation even in the midst of
our huge potentials at remaining one of the greatest nations on the
globe.”

The PDP urged Nigerians not to despair as “our rebranded and
repositioned party will bring up a credible and people-oriented
candidate that will work with the citizens to salvage our nation
from the economic woes and the misrule of the APC come 2019.”

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the verdict by Bill
Gates that the execution of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Economic
Recovery and Growth Plan (ERPG) does reflect the needs of Nigerians
is just being a polite declaration on the failure of the
administration but has vindicated the opposition’s position that
the government has failed.According to
the opposition party, the government’s economic policies are
anti-people and have strengthened Nigerians’ resolve to kick out
“the dysfunctional All Progressives Congress (APC) and its Federal
Government come 2019.”

According to a statement issued by PDP National Publicity
Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja on Friday, the verdict of
the Co-Chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has also
vindicated its stand that “the Buhari administration is the worst
in the history of our nation; that it never had the interest of the
people at heart but has been lying to Nigerians with false
performance indices and cosmetic appearances, while its agents
continue to siphon funds meant for the welfare of the people.”

The PDP said President Buhari and the APC can now see that the
entire world is fully aware of their misrule and as such should
stop wasting the nation’s resources on pointless image laundering
and desperate quest for international endorsements.

It added: “What Gates did not tell President Buhari and his team
was that their administration is so incompetent, disorganized and
confused that it could not develop any functional economic policy
direction and that this has caused our nation her current economic
woes.

“Bill Gates comments on the Federal Government’s empty,
deceptive and discredited Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP),
right in the Presidential Villa and in the presence of Vice
President Yemi Osinbajo, came to President Buhari and the APC as
stunt gone awry as they had planned to use the world figure to earn
an undue international endorsement ahead of 2019 elections

“More disheartening is that instead of being remorseful,
officials of the APC administration, including Prof. Osinbajo, are
attempting to put up a lame defence, despite the indicting
facts.

“The whole world is sad that under President Buhari and the APC,
our dear nation, which was hitherto one of the most vibrant
economies, has now become one of the most dangerous places to give
birth, with the fourth-worst maternal mortality rate in the
world.

“This administration, in the last three years, has not been able
to initiate any functional policy on health, education, housing,
agriculture, electricity, industrial growth, effective economic
empowerment and gainful employment, or any deliberate plan to grow
a sustainable middle class in the country.

“Instead, what Nigerians get is a sinking economy resulting from
anti-people policies; multiple taxations, increased tariffs on
essential commodities and services, increase in food prices, fuel
price hike, huge foreign debts, a weakened currency and massive job
loss while APC interests continue to fritter away trillions of
naira for their selfish gains.

“It is obvious that this Buhari administration derives joy in
seeing Nigerians suffer hunger and starvation even in the midst of
our huge potentials at remaining one of the greatest nations on the
globe.”

The PDP urged Nigerians not to despair as “our rebranded and
repositioned party will bring up a credible and people-oriented
candidate that will work with the citizens to salvage our nation
from the economic woes and the misrule of the APC come 2019.”