By Omeiza Ajayi, ABUJA

The All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, slammed governors of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for accusing it of running aground the economy, saying if anything, the current administration is fixing the results of the 16 desolate years of the PDP.

The APC, in a statement, said it was reacting to “blantantly denialist statements” made by the governors following their meeting in Enugu, on Wednesday, over the recent epochal Supreme Court decision that granted financial autonomy to local government councils in the country. 

The statement reads: “It is a sad irony that 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. PDP Governors are barefaced heirs of a legacy of sleaze and ruin, morally and politically unfit to point fingers.

“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 that 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. 

“Rather, the PDP Governors speak and carry on as idle spectators and executive free-loaders while blaming the federal government for everything, including their spectacular failure to accomplish the most elementary service delivery to their people.

“The same PDP Governors, many of who 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. 

“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 its award-winning Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Mr Nyesom Wike, is only 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.”

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