“Live up to expectations,” APC tells PDP Govs.

Kunle Sanni

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of indicting themselves by asking President Bola Tinubu to step down due to economic hardship in the country.

The national spokesperson of the APC, Felix Morka  in a statement on Sunday criticized the PDP governors for not fulfilling their responsibilities and instead becoming “doomsday vocalists”.

Morka expressed his disappointment that these governors, who have not adequately supported the local government areas in their respective states, are now blaming the president for their failures. He described their actions as “cringeworthy”.

The opposition party governors expressed that the people are undergoing unbearable hardship.

In reaction, APC called out the governors to live up to their responsibilities as chief executive officers of Nigeria’s federating units

“Rather than live up to their responsibilities as chief executive officers of Nigeria’s federating units, the PDP governors have turned themselves into a band of doomsday vocalists, raising their voices to deafening decibels intended to drown the groans of their citizens battered by their critical inertia, ineptitude and dismal performance as governors of their states,” he said.

“As the federal buck ‘ultimately stops’ at the President’s table so the state buck ‘ultimately stops’ at the governors’ table.

“The PDP governors’ call to the President to throw in the towel is nothing short of self-indictment.

“It is cringeworthy that the same governors that have never justified the massive federal allocations to their states, that have perennially stifled and dispossessed local government administrations of federally allocated funds are talking about ‘buck’. How can a governor of a state in utter shambles like Delta participate, barefaced, in a talk about ‘buck’?

“Has the PDP governor of Delta state even attempted to justify the over N483.57billion federal allocation to the state in 2023? Which part or sector of Delta state bears witness to the use of that huge allocation?

“Delta state retirees have remained desperately pulverized by PDP’s uninterrupted reckless rule since the advent of this Republic in 1999.”