The ruling All Progressives Congress has knocked governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party for blaming President Bola Tinubu and his predecessor for destroying the country’s economy and institutions built during the 16-year reign of the PDP.

In a communiqué issued at the end of their meeting in Enugu on Wednesday, the 13 governors of the opposition party condemned the government’s economic policies, which they believe have led to widespread hardship among Nigerians.

The Chairman of the forum and Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, presented their position after the four-hour meeting.

Reacting in a statement issued in Abuja titled ‘PDP governors – barefaced heirs of a legacy of sleaze and ruin,’ the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Felix Morka, said the opposition party deserved to cover its face in shame over the rot it accommodated during the 16 ‘inglorious’ years it ruled Nigeria.
He said, “It is a sad irony that the PDP governors who congregated to discuss the newly won financial autonomy of local governments, the most remarkable breakthrough in democratic transformation in our country since 1999, ended their meeting pointing their scabby political fingers at the APC government that accomplished a reform that the PDP did not and could not initiate, let alone deliver, in all of its desolate 16 years in government.

“By their statement, it is now obvious that the PDP governors lack understanding of their place and responsibility in our system of government. They do not understand the seriousness of the responsibility they bear as chief executives of their states to justify the resources at their disposal to build and bolster their domestic economies for the good of their people.

“The same PDP governors, many of whom have failed to pay legal minimum wage to their workers, hurdled together, without any sense of shame, to accuse the President Bola Tinubu-led administration of delay in approving a new minimum wage for workers. These are the same governors that, only a few weeks ago, publicly proclaimed their inability to pay the proposed new minimum wage due to their workers.”
Continuing, Morka emphasised that with the N70,000 new minimum wage agreed on Thursday, the president has further shown Nigerians voted for him at the last election.

According to him, it is becoming clear that the ongoing reforms in the country have started yielding the desired results.

“As of the time of preparing this statement, President Tinubu has approved the sum of N70,000 as the new minimum wage for workers in the country. This outcome is the result of the president’s determined leadership of discussions with leaders of Organised Labour. This will, no doubt, help to ameliorate the transient economic hardship that our people have had to endure in patriotic contribution to building a stronger and more vibrant economy for our country.

“Nigerians do not need to be reminded of the PDP’s inglorious 16 years of odious rule during which the party built nothing that can be remembered or destroyed. The APC-led administration has only saddled itself with fixing the PDP’s mess and institutionalized debilitating corruption of nearly two decades.

“The APC-led administration, through the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, is now completing and commissioning numerous road projects in the FCT awarded, paid for as far back as 2003 and 2010 but recklessly abandoned by successive PDP administrations.

“The petroleum subsidy regime and parallel foreign exchange regimes sustained by the PDP for the reckless pillaging of our commonwealth blew a gaping hole in the nation’s economy that the APC government continues to work assiduously to revitalize. The enduring dividends of the reforms of President Tinubu’s APC administration are sure as they are imminent,” he stated.

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