APC Slams PDP Governors Over Economic Mismanagement Claims

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has lashed out at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors, calling them “barefaced heirs of a legacy of sleaze and ruin” unfit to point fingers at anyone else. The APC’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, made the statement in response to a meeting held by PDP governors in Enugu on Wednesday.

According to Media Talk Africa, the PDP governors met to discuss the recent Supreme Court decision granting financial autonomy to local government councils and other national issues, including economic hardship and food inflation. In a statement, APC accused the PDP governors of being “idle spectators and executive free-loaders” who blame the federal government for everything, including their own failures to deliver basic services to their people.

APC cited the example of Delta State, which has received the highest federal allocation in the country but has failed to pay salaries and pensions to its workers. The party also pointed out that many PDP governors have failed to pay the legal minimum wage to their workers, despite accusing the President Bola Tinubu-led administration of delaying a new minimum wage.

The APC-led administration has been working to revitalize the economy, which was left in shambles by the PDP’s 16-year misrule. The party’s Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has been completing and commissioning numerous road projects in the FCT that were awarded and paid for in 2003 and 2010 but left abandoned by successive PDP administrations.

While the APC acknowledged that the current economic challenges may cause temporary hardship, it believes that the long-term benefits of its policies will far outweigh the short-term costs.