The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday responded to comments made by the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Oyegun Odigie that the latter has no moral right to criticize President Buhari on the economic situation of the country.

Oyegun had said the PDP almost ruined Nigeria during its 16 years reign, alleging that the party mismanaged $15bn belonging to the Nigerian people.

PDP on its official Twitter handle, @PdpNigeria responded on Friday.

The party while quoting figures said inflation was at 9.6% when it left government but now at 16.5% under the Buhari Administration. According to the PDP, the GDP average growth per annum has fallen from 8% to 2.3% since it left power.

The party also quoted figures of decrease in employment rates, increase per capita income and non-oil revenue.

The party also challenged the Buhari administration to publicly try former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki and all other members accused of corruption.

PDP also reminded Oyegun that President Buhari was once an Head of State where he played a significant role in the state of Nigeria as well as member of the Abacha-led government.

1. We read the statement by Chief John Oyegun, chairman of @APCNigeria, to the effect that PDP has no right to speak about…1/2

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…@NGRPresident’s economic failures & felt compelled to respond for record purposes. 2/2

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2. First off, Section S39 CFRN guarantees all Nigerians the right to freedom of expression. Chief Oyegun & his party would do well to…1/2

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… stop its many attempts at violating this right. 2/2

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3. Secondly, we will not follow Chief Oyegun’s path by responding with an invective rejoinder. We will let the facts speak for themselves

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4. For the avoidance of doubt these are some of the economic indices inherited by the @MBuhari admin-

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– No 1 destination for Foreign Investment in Africa with $395m in investments in Q1 2015 alone.

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– Single digit inflation. It was 9.6% at the inception of the @MBuhari admin. It stands at 16.5% now pic.twitter.com/GonKdPNVfo

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-A GDP at an average growth of 8% p/a in the last 10 yrs. #NGR is experiencing its first -tive GDP growth since 1999 pic.twitter.com/3ZdaMToThu

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– A telecoms sector that has received more than $32b in investment since 2001.

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– The largest economy in African valued at over $500b.

– An economy that was reducing the employment rate. pic.twitter.com/9RS2tFTDpq

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– An economy that had successfully increased per capita income from $299.4 in 1999 to $2640 in 2015 pic.twitter.com/DZ2qKyUgl4

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– A stock market valued at N11.66t. The #NGR Stock market has lost more than N1t of its value since the inception of the @MBuhari admin.

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– An economy that had reduced its food import bill from well over N1t to N684.7 billion as at December 2013 & was on target to meet…1/2

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… its target of producing 20million MT of food annually. 2/2

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– An economy that was diversifying by exponentially increasing non-oil revenue for the federation. pic.twitter.com/PeIgQk66Bj

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– An economy that had successfully reduced its personnel cost over the last 5 years. pic.twitter.com/0XS1UgciD3

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– Several tools for combating corruption such as IPPIS, TSA, GIFMIS, EFCC & ICPC.

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5. In the past year, the APC led FG has detained & publicly accused Col. Sambo Dasuki & members of our party for corruption. We find…1/3

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… it surprising that the FG is asking for secret trials for the accused persons. We urge the FG to try them openly & in accordance…2/3

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… respect for the rule of law. 3/3

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6. We feel compelled to remind Chief Oyegun that not all monies generated from crude oil sales accrue to the FG. Monies from crude…1/4

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… sales accrue to Nigeria & its various JV partners. What accrues to Nigeria is then shared between the FG, States & LGAs subject…2/4

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…to the deduction of operational expenses. It is either a rookie mistake, or deliberate misrepresentation to state that the Jonathan…3/4

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… admin could not account for money it is under no obligation to account for. 4/4

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7. Having said that, we urge the @MBuhari admin to audit NNPC if he feels the need to & to prosecute anyone found guilty of… 1/2

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… misappropriation of public funds according to the law. 2/2

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8. There are NO economic indices anywhere in the world by which the @Mbuhari admin can be rated better than ours’. His performance as…1/2

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… President thus far has been shambolic and on a daily basis he reverses the gains we made. 2/2

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9. Chief Oyegun should be reminded that we handed over a significantly better Nigeria to @MBuhari than we received from the military. 1/3

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Chief Oyegun should also be reminded that @MBuhari played a significant role in the state of Nigeria handed over to us – first as Head…2/3

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… of State between 1983 & 1985, then as a member of the government of the Late General Sani Abacha. 3/3

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10. Chief Oyegun would be better served to advise @MBuhari on how to reverse the recession his policies have brought on the nation;…1/3

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… or how to resolve the humanitarian crises in the North East; or how to reverse the polio outbreak recently discovered in Nigeria…2/3

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… after our policies had seen an eradiction of polio from more than half of the world’s polio cases in 2009 to 6 in 2014 & 0 in 2015 3/3

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… #NoPolio pic.twitter.com/jgfCuoreDC

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11. We would like to give Chief Oyegun the compliments of our warmest regards.

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God bless Nigeria. Now & always.

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