APC unhappy our rally was not stoned in Kano — PDP

The Presidential Campaign Management Committee has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of being unsettled by “the peaceful, stone-free and resounding rally” of the main opposition party in Kano last Thursday.

Hence, the ruling party is harping on the slip of tongue that happened to the PDP National Chairman, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, while addressing supporters at the rally.

Senator Dino Melaye spokesperson and Director Public Affairs of the committee made the assertion in a statement on Saturday, noting that the “fractured, factionalised and fading” APC could not muster another reaction “after the impressive outing than to make a song and dance of what was by its own admission a slip of tongue of the urbane and intellectually savvy Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).”

Recall that Ayu had mistakenly stated that the “PDP has brought shame to Nigerians” when he meant to say “APC.”

Responding to APC jibes on account of the slip of tongue, the statement said: “To demonstrate the extent that incoherence and political erosion has so much disoriented the beleaguered APC, its spinners attempted to cover the flame of its failure with a bare hand in an attempt to veil the rejection and shame that beguiled the Party when its leaders were stoned in that same Kano City just a few days before. The balablue of the APC is a shock therapy for the massive reception that the PDP received in Kano.

“It is repulsive and revulsive that a Party that has ruined the economy and made it so prostrate that citizens are now buying their own currency will be talking about shame. What is more shameful than having thousands of naira in your bank but you are unable to buy groundnut of 200 naira to mix with your garri, because you have a Party that has completely run out of ideas and has consequently run our country aground?

“How can a Party talk of shame where banks have now shut down and customers have relocated from the peace of their homes to the cubicle of ATMs hoping for a wad of naira note to slip from the currency dispenser?

“How can a Party talk of shame where in the place of hope for a better academic system in the university its Presidential Candidate is assuring that instead of 4 years students will spend 8 years? What a renewal of misery and hopelessness!

“How can a Party talk about shame when its own Presidential candidate is accusing the President of Nigeria and leader of his Party of sabotage and unpardonable economic mismanagement that has taken the naira from exchanging at 200 naira to a dollar to 800 naira to a dollar within 7 years?

“How can a Party talk of shame when in a nation of over 200 million people the APC is parading a man who most times doesn’t know where he is and utters unintelligible bulaba and balabu all over the place?

“How can a Party talk of shame where trillions of naira have been spent on fuel subsidy and Nigerians in the pauperised villages are buying a litre of petrol at 400 naira while those who ferry public money around in bullion vans pay 180 naira per litre?

(Tribune)