Fuel scarcity and nationwide blackout, ugly reminders of PDP’s total failure – APC

The APC Presidential Campaign Organization (APCPCO) has condemned the
recent and sudden emergence of fuel scarcity and fuel queues in the
Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and some parts of the country, as
well as the recent gross reduction in the hours of electricity supply
across the country by electricity providers describing it as sad
reminders of the failure of the PDP Federal Government.
The party wondered how a political party which has been in power for
16 years and which is unable to ensure that its citizens enjoy regular
fuel supply being an oil producing and endowed country and electricity
having privatized the power sector and given generous financial
assistance to operators of the power sector can still feel confident
to seek another term in office.
In statement by Mallam Garba Shehu, Director of Media Publicity of the
APC Presidential Campaign Organization, the party said that the
glaring and inexcusable failure of the PDP government in these two
important areas is a sign of gross ineptitude, maladministration and
corruption which is responsible for the sorry economic state the
average citizen of Nigeria has found themselves.
For the people of Nigeria to be again confronted with the specter of
fuel scarcity so soon after the harrowing experience of last Christmas
period shows that the Jonathan government can never get anything right
as Nigeria will continue to be an embarrassment among the oil
producing countries of the world. The issue is that being unable to
set up even one new refinery in the past five years and unable to get
existing refineries to function up to 50 per cent capacity, the people
of Nigeria surely need another set of people to be in charge of
affairs. Those who man the two critical sectors of fuel and power are
cronies of President Jonathan and supporters of the PDP that they have
no reason to discharge their mandate in favour of the Nigerian people.
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We all remember the hype and fanfare with which the privatization of
the power sector was carried out and yet majority of Nigerians are
having less electric power or none at all but are forced to pay
outrageous electricity bills to the operators of the power companies
who are either card-carrying members of the PDP or are close
associates of President Jonathan.
To add insult to injury, the Jonathan government has also given
billions of naira to these operators under the guise of assisting them
to improve power supply, without result. And this happened after the
sector had been sold and the facilities handed over to these private
operators.
We of the APC demand that the Jonathan government and his party
explain to Nigerians the reason why fuel scarcity and blackout should
persist making life a hell for Nigerians, despite huge investments and
policies put in place to eradicate these problems.
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