President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina has gone harsh on the People’s Democratic Party, saying the party plunged Nigeria into a cesspool of backwardness from 1999 to 2015.
The President’s spokesperson added that the PDP does not breathe progress, saying that despite raising billions of naira for its head office, the party has not been able to complete it.
Adesina in a piece titled, “A Good Setback by 60 Years”, argued that the PDP has a “fixation with 60 years” but could only rule Nigeria for 16 years.
He added that the party lost to its principal and the All Progressives Congress in the 2015 elections, noting that the PDP has not to stop fantasying about 60 years.
In his argument, the claim by the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, that Buhari and his team “have taken our country 60 years backward” exemplifies the party’s “neurosis with 60 years”.
He added, “And to think the party can’t even complete its head office, despite raising billions of Naira, which developed legs and vanished.”
Adesina goes further to list some of Buhari’s achievements in the last five years, which include those in the Agriculture sector, adding that neighboring countries now buy food from Nigeria.
“We used to import everything. Even when we had a celebrated farmer as President, we brought in rice from all over the world, and beans from Burkina Faso. Maize, wheat, sorghum, millet, we imported everything. Fertilizer was one huge scam when we planted nothing.
“Then Buhari came. He told Nigerians to return to the land. And he put his money where his mouth was. Agriculture was massively funded, and today, we have pyramids of rice round the country. We no longer import any type of grains, rather our neighbors come to buy here. We are almost self-sufficient in food,” He said.
