The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said President Goodluck Jonathan<\/p>\n
is handing over a nation in deep crisis, even as his Administration<\/p>\n
continues to contrive more crises without making any effort to solve any<\/p>\n
of them.<\/p>\n
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In a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday by its National Publicity<\/p>\n
Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party however appealed to Nigerians<\/p>\n
not to lose hope, despite the daunting challenges they are currently<\/p>\n
facing in this atmosphere of contrived chaos, saying help is on the way.<\/p>\n
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\u201dIn a few days\u2019 time, President Jonathan will hand over to President-elect<\/p>\n
Muhammadu Buhari. Never in the history of our country has any government<\/p>\n
handed over to another a more distressed country: No electricity, no fuel,<\/p>\n
workers are on strike, billions are owed to state and federal workers, 60<\/p>\n
billion dollars are owed in national debt and the economy is virtually<\/p>\n
grounded<\/p>\n
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\u201dToday, Nigerians are roaming the streets, jerry cans in hand, searching<\/p>\n
for everything from kerosene to fuel to diesel to power their homes, keep<\/p>\n
their vehicles on the road and keep their businesses going. They are<\/p>\n
paying as much as 300 Naira per litre for fuel, if at all they can get it.<\/p>\n
Yet their government is not saying a word about the situation,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
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APC said while the Jonathan Administration has arrogantly told Nigerians<\/p>\n
that it remains in office and in power till May 29th, all it has been<\/p>\n
doing is sacking people and making new appointments as if it had been<\/p>\n
deprived of the opportunity to do so in the past six years.<\/p>\n
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\u201dThey are not interested in how to end the fuel scarcity that has<\/p>\n
paralyzed the socio-economic lives of Nigerians, they are not interested<\/p>\n
in how to raise electricity production from its unprecedentedly-low level<\/p>\n
of 1,327 megawatts, they are not doing anything to end the strike by blue<\/p>\n
and while collar oil workers, or to stop the impending one.<\/p>\n
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\u201dThey say they are in office till May 29th, but they do not care how<\/p>\n
workers in 18 states, who are owed a total of 300 billion Naira in<\/p>\n
salaries under their watch, or federal workers who are owed 400 billion<\/p>\n
Naira, will be paid. Yet they are running a budget of 1 trillion Naira<\/p>\n
deficit.<\/p>\n
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\u201dThey have deliberately stopped meeting their obligations to oil<\/p>\n
marketers, which is now around 200 billion Naira, hence no one is lifting<\/p>\n
petroleum products anymore. If the current energy crisis is not solved<\/p>\n
soonest, the telecommunications sector could even be grounded in a matter<\/p>\n
of days as service providers will have neither electricity nor fuel to<\/p>\n
power their base stations. Of course the aviation sector has already been<\/p>\n
left comatose by the fuel crisis. The whole scenario reeks of sabotage!,\u201d<\/p>\n
the party said.<\/p>\n
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APC said before PDP and Jonathan Administration\u2019s spin doctors distort its<\/p>\n
message, it is important to let Nigerians know that the party (APC) is not<\/p>\n
engaging in lamentations but simply keeping the citizenry informed of the<\/p>\n
situation on the ground, with just five days to handover date.<\/p>\n
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\u201dIf we thought the nation was being well managed and there was no problem,<\/p>\n
we would not have embarked on a campaign of change. While we are ready,<\/p>\n
willing and able to begin to address the mammoth challenges facing us as a<\/p>\n
nation as soon as we assume office at the centre in a few days\u2019 time, we<\/p>\n
will not hesitate for a second to keep Nigerians informed of how we have<\/p>\n
been brought to this sorry pass, with a view to avoiding such a tragic<\/p>\n
turn in the future,\u201d the party said.<\/p>\n
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It expressed sadness that the nation has been on auto pilot for the past<\/p>\n
several weeks, as the outgoing administration has shown neither the<\/p>\n
capacity nor the willingness to resolve any of the crises it has contrived<\/p>\n
and foisted on the nation.<\/p>\n
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\u201dThis is the most vivid manifestation of the old saying that literally<\/p>\n
translates to a departing office holder defecating on the chair he is<\/p>\n
vacating,\u201d APC saidd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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