By Donald Iorchir
Abuja
The Democratic Peoples Congress (DPC), has admonished the All Progressives Congress-led federal government telling it to face the challenges of governance and strive towards alleviating the hardship in the country rather than complain about past governments under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The DPC in a statement signed by its national chairman, Rev Olusegun Peters, yesterday told President Muhammadu Buhari to use the recovered looted funds to get Nigerians out of the current economic hardship caused by the economic recession adding that the APC-led federal government has no excuse than to fix Nigeria.
It said: “A government that cannot meet the basic needs of the masses should honourably step aside”, while insisting that “There is no justification for the excessive hunger, poverty and stagnation in the nation”.
The DPC therefore, urged the federal government to update Nigerians on all the funds recovered and how they are being prudently utilized for the benefit of the common man.
The DPC’s statement reads: “The President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has repeatedly announced the recovery of trillions of naira and millions of dollars recovered from corrupt Nigerians who looted the national treasury”.
“As a progressive political party, DPC cannot fold its hands while millions of Nigerians are suffering and dying while government plays to the gallery and hopeless blame-game. Nigerians have been pressed to the wall by insensitive leaders and government at all levels that failed to provide essential dividends of democracy they were elected to provide”.
“However, with the funds saved from the Transaction Single Account (TSA), improved oil revenue and diversification of the economy, there is no reason why Nigerians should be suffering and wandering aimlessly in political wilderness in search of daily bread and direction. It is more devastating happening in a government that promised the people change and better life”.
President Buhari should not squander the goodwill of the people that voted him to power. Good governance and improved standards of living are not negotiable and definitely not excusable. Because this generation of Nigerians and future generation have no other country they can call their own, we must join hands to make it work and ensure government does the right things.