The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has no moral justification to accuse it of bringing down the country’s economy.
Mr Felix Morka, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, said this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja while reacting to comments credited to PDP governors at the end of their meeting.
It’s was repored that the governors elected on the PDP platform at a meeting on July 17 in Enugu, accused the APC-led government of destroying the country’s economy.
The governors accused at their meeting over the recent Supreme Court ruling that granted financial autonomy to Local Government councils in the country.
Morka, while describing the ruling as most remarkable breakthrough in democratic transformation in the country since 1999, expressed sadness at the comments of the PDP governors.
“It is a sad irony that PDP governors, who congregated to discuss the newly won financial autonomy of local governments, ended their meeting pointing political accusing fingers at the APC government that accomplished a reform that the PDP did not.
“The reform the PDP could not initiate, let alone deliver, in all of its desolate 16 years in government.
“The PDP governors are barefaced heirs of a legacy of sleaze and ruin, morally and politically unfit to point fingers,” Morka said.
He added that, from their statement, it was now obvious that the PDP governors lacked understanding of their place and responsibility in our system of government.
According to Morka, the PDP governors do not understand the seriousness of the responsibility they have as Chief Executives of their states to justify the resources at their disposal.
He said they were supposed to build and bolster their domestic economies for the good of their people.
