BY DAMOLA EMMANUEL
Although the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has embargoed the commencement of campaign till November 18, this year, the war of words may have begun in earnest between the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the People’s Democratic Party, PDP.
On Wednesday, the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation raised a 14 point-poser for President Muhammadu Buhari and his party.
Among others, the Atiku Campaign challenged the President and the APC to pinpoint projects they initiated and completed as well as name a campaign promise they had kept.
In the statement, the Atiku Campaign said it had noted that “the Buhari Government and the All Progressives Congress have been very idle of late, which explains their abandonment of the vital duties of running the government in order to focus on hurling insults and false accusations on the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar.
“In order to give Nigerians the answers they want, we urge the Buhari Campaign Organisation to take the #BuhariChallenge and answer the following questions:
- Name one project initiated, started and completed in the last three years by the Buhari administration.
- Name one youth in President Buhari’s cabinet.
- Name one campaign promise President Buhari has kept.
- Name one Southerner heading a National Intelligence Agency under Buhari. ·
- Name one terrorist arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned by the Buhari administration.
- Name one Buhari government official arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned by the Buhari administration over their many budget padding scandals.
- Name one member of the Buhari administration fingered in corruption that was fired, arrested and currently facing trial. ·
- Name one former President or Head of State that has not been blamed by President Buhari for the precarious state of the economy he led us into.
- Name one year that Nigeria’s GDP grew faster than her population under Buhari (for 16 years of PDP administrations, Nigeria’s GDP always grew faster than population growth).
- Name the initiatives the Buhari government has put in place to address Nigeria being named the world headquarters for extreme poverty under Buhari.
- Name one initiative the Buhari government has put in place to address Nigeria having the world’s highest number of out of school children (13.2 million according to the United Nations Children Fund).
- Name the date the Ogoni clean-up will begin.
- Name what President Buhari has done with the ₦13 trillion loans he has taken in 3 years (compared to the ₦6 trillion borrowed by the PDP in 16 years).
- Name the real owners of the Ikoyi Apartment billions.
