APC, PDP clash over dead board appointees

•PDP: ‘A govt that appoints dead people cannot
run Nigeria’
•APC: ‘You’re belittling governance,
embarrassing yourself'

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday
lashed out at the Buhari-led APC administration
over what it called unpardonable national
embarrassment caused by the appointment of
dead persons as chairmen/members of the newly
constituted boards and parastatals.
The opposition party said the gaffe is a further
confirmation that the APC administration is
completely confused, disorganized and grossly
incompetent.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in turn
labelled PDP ridiculous and an embarrassment to
see everything as an opportunity to attack the
administration “without looking at the seriousness
of their claims.”
The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr.
Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement in Abuja said:
“Nigerians can now see why the nation’s
economy has been in shambles in the last two
years. When we say that this government is
completely inept, some Nigerians did not know to
which level, but now they do.
“This inability to tidy up a simple issue of list of
209 appointees has completely exposed the extent
the APC government is bereft of simple
organizational skills to manage a country like
Nigeria, which is in dire need of development.
“How on earth can a government that cannot
compile a common list handle intricate issues of
national planning and budgeting; issues of health,
education, aviation, agriculture, infrastructure and
management of the huge civil service?
“How can they possibly initiate and successfully
implement national and international instruments
for national development in today’s competitive
world?
“This also explains why nothing has been working
under the APC government. Furthermore, the mix
up in the list also exposes the corruption in the
APC government.
“The fact is that the government of our dear
country has been in wrong hands in the last two
years and the situation will continue to worsen
unless the nation is rescued from them in 2019.
“Finally, we urge Nigerians to disregard the lame
excuses by the APC government and hold them
responsible for the woes that have befallen our
country under their inept and undesirable regime.”
However, in reacting to the PDP statement last
night, the APC National Publicity Secretary,
Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi said the opposition party
was only belittling governance and embarrassing
itself with the way it seeks to use every
opportunity to attack the Buhari administration.
He said “it is embarrassing that the PDP sees
every move as evidence of APC’s inability to rule
the country.
“Things happen. I don’t think the PDP which has
governed the country before should respond in
such embarrassing manner to a situation where in
a list of over 200 a few names, which ought to
have been removed, escaped scrutiny.
“These people died while the process of compiling
the list was still on. It is nothing more than an
honest mistake.
“With the way it is trivializing every issue, PDP is
embarrassing itself and belittling governance. If
after several years in power, they still don’t know
that governing a country is more than the trivial
things they take so serious, then it is quite
embarrassing. How on earth can a party like PDP
say because of such honest mistake, APC is not
qualified to rule Nigeria?
“But we understand their desperation to take
advantage of everything to gain prominence and
seek political mileage.
“But it is ridiculous for them to now see
everything as an opportunity to attack this
administration without looking at the seriousness
of their claims. It is quite embarrassing.”