Tinubu didn't fulfil promises made as APC National Leader, won't also fulfil any other - PDP tells Nigerians

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged Nigerians to discard promised made by President Bola Tinubu during his presidential address on Monday.

In a statement made available on Tuesday, the main opposition party said that Tinubu’s national address was as an attempt by the ruling party to hoodwink and beguile Nigerians and divert the attention of the country’s Labour union.

“Yesterday evening, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT of the All Progressives Congress (APC) @OfficialAPCNg dashed the hope of Nigerians, and especially his now disillusioned supporters with his staged address in feeble defence of his badly planned and hurriedly-executed polices that have worsened economic hardship and uncertainty across the country in the last two months,” statement by PDP read.

“The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) berates the recourse to such vacuous, illusory and showy mal-administration which further revealed lack of leadership ingenuity and focus in the management of the affairs of the nation. The PDP is appalled that the address is another litany of false promises hurriedly put together by his handlers in the desperate bid to hoodwink and beguile Nigerians, blackmail Labour Fronts and divert public attention from the life-discounting experiences imposed by the APC government,” it added.

The main opposition party said the speech was a strategy adopted by Mr Tinubu government to “play on the psychology of Nigerians with propaganda and empty promises are consistent with the deceptive trajectory of the APC since its emergence in 2014.”

“The PDP holds that Senator Tinubu’s speech is a horrifying reminder of APC’s bogus promises under him as National Leader in 2015 which include promised Three million jobs per year; Making Naira equal in value to the US Dollar; Provision of Small Business Loan Guarantee Scheme to create at least 5 million new jobs by 2019; Provision of allowances to discharged but unemployed Youth Corps members for twelve (12) months; Creation of a Social Welfare Programme of at least N5,000 for 25 million poorest and most vulnerable citizens; Establishment of N300 billion Regional Growth Fund (average of N50bn in each Geo-Political region); Imaginary improvement in our agricultural produce with phantom pyramid of rice which turned out to be “pyramid of lies” among other myriads of counterfeit promises.”

The statement comes amid plans by the country’s labour union to shutdown the nation over the failure of the President Tinubu led government to address the increased hardship being faced by Nigerians as a result of the removal of fuel subsidy.