Action Congress of Nigeria on Wednesday described as “unnecessary and diversionary” the manner in which the Presidency reacted to the former Lagos State Governor Bola Tinbu’s recent speech in London.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, the party noted that instead of reading the ACN leader’s speech objectively, the Presidency resorted to denigrating the former governor.
The party said, “The Presidency went after the messenger, rather than the message, rehashing its old cliches about the ACN and its leader for daring to carry out an objective analysis of the state of our economy as well as the state of the nation and suggesting the way forward.”
It also urged the Presidency to controvert what the ACN leader said by telling Nigerians how the economy had fared since the Peoples Democratic Party came to power in 1999.
The ACN said, “This is how to counter any perceived incorrect assertion by any critic, instead of engaging in name calling.”
The party also challenged the Presidency to prove to Nigerians that the country’s leadership in the past 14 years had “been visionary, disciplined and courageous – what Tinubu described as the ‘missing link’ that has led to the retrogression of the three key drivers of development.”
The ACN noted, “As Asiwaju said the gap between poor and rich widens. There is grinding poverty and people have to work twice as hard each day to make ends meet. There is massive unemployment. Of what use is any leadership that does little to solve these problems?”
It also urged the Presidency to deny that it had turned the one man, one vote concept, on its head, especially considering the developments arising from the recently conducted Nigerian Governors’ Forum election.
Source: Punch
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, the party noted that instead of reading the ACN leader’s speech objectively, the Presidency resorted to denigrating the former governor.
The party said, “The Presidency went after the messenger, rather than the message, rehashing its old cliches about the ACN and its leader for daring to carry out an objective analysis of the state of our economy as well as the state of the nation and suggesting the way forward.”
It also urged the Presidency to controvert what the ACN leader said by telling Nigerians how the economy had fared since the Peoples Democratic Party came to power in 1999.
The ACN said, “This is how to counter any perceived incorrect assertion by any critic, instead of engaging in name calling.”
The party also challenged the Presidency to prove to Nigerians that the country’s leadership in the past 14 years had “been visionary, disciplined and courageous – what Tinubu described as the ‘missing link’ that has led to the retrogression of the three key drivers of development.”
The ACN noted, “As Asiwaju said the gap between poor and rich widens. There is grinding poverty and people have to work twice as hard each day to make ends meet. There is massive unemployment. Of what use is any leadership that does little to solve these problems?”
It also urged the Presidency to deny that it had turned the one man, one vote concept, on its head, especially considering the developments arising from the recently conducted Nigerian Governors’ Forum election.
Source: Punch
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