Tinubu won’t change a winning team, Presidency knocks PDP

Kunle Sanni

The Presidency has chastised the opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for its refusal to recognise the constructive reforms implemented in the current administration of President Bola Tinubu.

According to him, the President has stated that he will not change his team, which has been responsible for the country’s turnaround.

In recent times, the country has experienced a major economic turnaround especially the foreign exchange as the dollar is now selling in the parallel markets against the naira below 1,000.

The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga  in a statement released on Thursday condemned the PDP’s behavior.

He claimed that after the PDP’s National Executive Council meeting, the party accused the ruling All Progressives Congress and President Tinubu of all its past inadequacies during its 16-year-long reign until it was ousted from power in 2015.

“We believe the party’s NEC members must have been habiting another planet, as all the accusations contradicted the reality on ground and completely ignored the stellar achievements recorded by the Tinubu Administration in less than one year.

“Unlike the PDP administration of 16 years, the Tinubu administration has been confronting the problems of our country headlong, moving for an audacious reset that will firmly put our country on a solid economic pedestal.

“The results are already showing. Contrary to the pessimism and wishes of some PDP leaders, the National Currency has become the world’s best performing, appreciating by almost 50 percent against the dollar in few weeks.

“Exchange rate is stabilising as a convergence has been reached between official and so-called parallel market. The contrived pall of gloom cast over our nation has faded out and renewed hope is now on the leash”, he said.

The Presidential aide also noted that the APC’s economic program has generated a positive trend, leading the IMF to increase Nigeria’s growth projection from 2.9 per cent to 3.3 per cent this year.

He also spoke on what he described as audacious infrastructure projects, such as the Badagry-Sokoto Highway and the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway.

“The administration is targeting a higher growth with its plans to embark on audacious infrastructure projects, such as the Badagry-Sokoto Highway and the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway. The latter has attracted unwarranted attack by one of the PDP leaders, blinded by the huge economic benefits of the highway project.

He said the president will not a winning team, “that is working in sync with the advisory of the private sector, state governors and economic gurus in the country.

“It was surprising that the PDP under whose watch Boko Haram was born in 2009 and worse of all, which looted the billions of dollars earmarked to equip our armed forces and the police, could so unabashedly blame the Tinubu administration for what it wrongly termed increasing spate of terrorism and banditry.

“This is far from the truth. Security has improved, with fewer cases of terrorist attacks and banditry recorded. In recent weeks, over a thousand kidnapped victims, some whose kidnapping antedated this government were rescued by our gallant armed forces, without the government paying any ransom.

“The PDP is advised to harmonise its home first, rather than accusing President Tinubu of trying to entrench one party state. President Tinubu nurses no such plan as it only exists in the imagination of the opposition PDP”, Onanuga added.