- Former president, Goodluck Jonathan, says APC employs hi-tech propaganda to cover up its misrules
- He insists the PDP performed when it controlled the government from 1999 to 2015
- Jonathan says the opposition party needs a competent national chairman to bounce back in 2019
Former president, Goodluck Jonathan, has challenged the All Progressive Congress (APC)-led administration to a public debate over its claim that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) did not do well in government from 1999 to 2015.
Jonathan also accused the ruling party of running a government of lies and propaganda.
The former president made the statement on Thursday, October 19, when one of the chairmanship aspirants of the PDP, Tunde Adeniran, paid him a visit at his residence in Abuja, The Nation reports.
He said the ruling party had continued to employ hi-tech propaganda to cover up its misrules, adding that the APC has nothing to show in terms of achievement.
The former president maintained that PDP performed well when it controlled the government from 1999 to 2015.
He said: “The PDP administration for 16 did well and will continue to do well. But this administration has done nothing, the administration is full lies and propaganda.
“In the power sector, we did well to revive it, a certain state governor criticised our government, saying that any serious government should be able to fix the power sector within six months.
"But today, the APC has been in power for how many years? Fortunately, the then governor is in the APC Government as a Minister."
Jonathan said there was still hope for the PDP, adding that the party would strategise in order for it to return to power in 2019.
Jonathan noted that the PDP needed a competent, reliable and courageous individual as national chairman if it wants to bounce back in 2019.
"For our party to make a headway, we need a national chairman that will select credible and reliable candidates for various elective offices at the various levels of government, from the Presidency to councillorship.
“We need a national chairman who will be courageous enough to call the President to order if we win the Presidency and the President is going astray. He must not be someone who would change when the party takes a position on issues.
“We need a national chairman who will rule the party democratically and carry others along. In fact, the national chairman is the leader of the party. It is not the other way round," he said.
Meanwhile, Goodluck Jonathan has revealed why he held a closed-door meeting with the former military Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida, on Wednesday, October 18.
The meeting was held at IBB’s uphill residence in Minna, Niger state.
We gathered that the meeting started some minutes after 10.00 am and did not end until about 12.14 pm .
When journalists asked of details of the meeting, Jonathan declined, saying it was “private and personal”.
After he was pressed further, he said he was in Minna to “empathize with the former military leader on his safe return from a medical trip abroad.”
“I have not seen General Babangida since he returned from medical vacation and I felt it was the right time to do so,” the former president said.
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