The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) destroyed Nigeria in its 16 years of governance.

Tinubu stated that the APC has been working hard to correct the mess created by the PDP.

He said this via a statement issued on Monday by the Director, Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga.

Onanuga stated that Tinubu’s offence was that he reminded the PDP of its 16 years of “cash and carry government” which left the mess that the APC government has been clearing.

According to him, the APC presidential candidate said a party still battling with leadership crisis and without a legacy of visionary planning has no place in Nigeria’a future.

“They spent 16 years and forgot that there is a railway infrastructure that can do haulage, human carriage, animal and food carriage across the length and breadth of the country.

“They (PDP) got there and turned it to an incubator. I wonder why they still exist as a party. These are people still fighting for leadership of their party, looking for the direction of the compass. We are not equal at all; we are smarter. We know the road; let them follow.

“We are not just the ones to hurl abuses and insults at our rivals’ party. We don’t need it. We are smarter; we are brilliant; we are courageous; we are not like them,” Onanuga quoted Tinubu as saying.

He further accused the opposition of abandoning projects across the country, saying: “Abandoned and uncompleted projects by the PDP administration include the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Abuja-Kaduna railway, and the Second Niger Bridge, among others.

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“PDP left undone railroads, roads, power and ports that signalled a prostrate economy and a socially disoriented country.”

Onanuga added that the APC would focus on issue-based campaigns devoid of insult and abuse ahead of the 2023 general election.

“We have had cause in the past to state our objective in the 5-month campaign leading to the 25 February, 2023 presidential election not to trade personal insults. Our party and our presidential candidate will focus on issues that are important to improving the quality of life of Nigerians.

“PDP and its ever clueless leaders did more shameful things, by declaring falsely that the governing party was dead, when they know it is the party that they needed to beat to realise the inordinate ambition of their perennial candidate and perennially failed Atiku Abubakar.

“The APC government has many achievements to be proud of unlike the PDP that squandered and plundered Nigeria’s resources and could not even deliver a simple Second Niger bridge to the people of South East, that have always delivered votes for it since 1999. To the shame of PDP and eternal credit to APC, President Muhammadu Buhari will commission the bridge this year.

“Among its many laudable achievements, the current APC-led government has to its credit Lagos-Ibadan, Warri-Itakpe rail network and over 13,000 kilometres of roads, including bridges at different stages of completion across the country. This contrasted with the PDP years when in its first 10 years spent N633 billion on only 4,752 kilometres of road,” he said.

He added that the APC-led government has completed no fewer than five airports, adding that the party would take the credit for ensuring that the $17 billion Dangote refinery and petrochemical complex and the $3billion Lekki Deep Sea Port are accomplished.

The Star