BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar on Sunday took a swipe at the launch of ‘next level’ by the Buhari Campaign, saying that it is very vague on policy and very big on promises.
Atiku therefore stressed that promises made without policies are like a house without a foundation which will surely fall adding that policies are the plans and roadmaps that will be used to achieve promises.
He pointed said and counseled the Buhari campaign that the time for propaganda has gone, stressing that Nigerians are now interested in proper agenda.
The former Vice President, who stated these in a statement by the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation, said he make bold to ask one or two questions as part of his campaign team efforts to run an issue-based campaign, adding that Nigerians have seen prove of promises without action in the last three years.
Atiku further said; “Promises are cheap. Anyone can make promises and indeed, President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress did make quite a number of promises which they either denied or did not fulfil, such as the promise to create 3 million jobs per annum and to equalise the value of the Naira with the dollar.
“Without a concrete policy, these ‘next level’ promises are nothing more than next level propaganda. In fact, the feedback we have received from Nigerians is one of alarm.
“Over the last three and a half years of the Buhari administration, Nigeria was officially named as the world headquarters for extreme poverty. Nigerians are asking if this administration is planning ‘next level’ poverty for them?
“Under this government, 11 million Nigerians have lost their jobs and the administration is so panicky that it has refused to fund the National Bureau of Statistics to release the latest unemployment numbers. Nigerians are asking if this administration is planning ‘next level’ unemployment for them?
“Under Buhari, the value of the Naira has been so devalued that Bloomberg rated the Naira as the worst performing currency on earth. The nation wants to know if this government plans ‘next level’ devaluation of the Naira for them?
“In 2018, Transparency International announced that Nigeria made her worst ever retrogression in the Corruption Perception Index moving 12 steps backwards from 136 under the Peoples Democratic Party to 144 under Buhari. Nigerians are asking if this administration is planning ‘next level’ corruption for them?” Atiku querried.
The APCO noted that the so-called ‘next level’ launch was an anti-climax in that it just exposed the fact that all that the Buhari government is promising Nigerians is more of the same.
It further said that if the state of the average Nigerian has not improved in the last three and a half years, more of the same is obviously not what they need.
Atiku therefore urge Nigerians not to lose hope, but to await the launch of his policies, plans and program to Get Nigeria Working Again.
He said; “Remember those who fail to plan, plan to fail. Atiku has a plan. Atiku means jobs and at 12 noon on Monday, November 19, 2018, you will hear from the man with the plan.”
