Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has picked holes in some claims of the President Buhari-led Federal Government presented during his recent budget proposal presentation before the National Assembly.
The former Vice President criticised that some of the claims of the President have been found not to be correct.
Speaking through his Presidential Campaign Organisation, Atiku however demands Buhari tenders immediate apologies to Nigerians.
In a statement signed by Kola Ologbodiyan, Director, Media & Publicity, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Atiku Abubakar said, “Nigerians and the international community were shocked as fact checks reveal that a large part of the claims made by Mr. President, particularly on projects he claimed to have completed, were (not true), apparently designed by the Buhari Presidency to mislead the nation and the world.
“The fact checks showed that most of the projects which Mr President claimed to have been completed do not have the littlest attention of his administration if they exist at all.
“Of particular reference is President Buhari’s claim that he has completed the Ugwashi-Uku Dam in Delta state; a claim, which casts a long shadow on his assertions, as the project has been abandoned since 2015.
“In fact, the Dam, which President Buhari said that he has completed, is overgrown with weeds, while the road leading to the complex has collapsed.
“The scenario is mostly the same in other capital projects, particularly those in remote parts of the country, which perhaps, our dear President thought Nigerians will not fact check on.
“This explained why federal lawmakers booed him during his budget presentation, a development that is unprecedented in our national history.
“Nigerians will recall that the PDP had always alerted that this (government) has nothing to offer Nigerians except lying, falsehood, deception, beguilement, intimidation, harassment, hunger, starvation and disobedience of court orders.”
Concluding, the former Vice President said, “The PPCO therefore charges President Buhari to apologize to Nigerians as well as get his handlers to turn a new leaf and save his reputation from further nose-diving within the few months he has in office as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria”.
