Lai Mohammed: Here Are  President Buhari, APC’s Achievements; Slams PDP

By Akinwale Kasali

The President Muhammadu Buhari administration has been applauded by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, for impacting the lives of Nigerians positively in the past seven years in the saddle.

The former Kwara State Governorship Candidate under the Action Congress of Nigeria lashed opposition Party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for criticizing the achievements of the APC Government.

He  condemned the PDP for engaging in “a deliberate campaign of calumny and falsehood” on the achievements of the APC-led administration.

Mohammed described  the comment of PDP as “absurd”, stressing that he was using the opportunity to address what It called an absurdity that is being bandied about by the opposition, that the Buhari administration has nothing to campaign with, in the run-up to the 2023 general elections.

“It’s a cruel irony that the Party that presided over the affairs of this great country in a time of plenty but could not complete a single modern rail line, is the one accusing an administration that has completed at least three standard gauge rail lines of lacking in achievements.

“Indeed, the Buhari administration is spoilt for choice in celebrating its achievements.”

He listed some of the achievements by the current administration to include the completed Abuja-Kaduna, Lagos-Ibadan and Itakpe-Warri standard gauge rail-lines  adding that the Buhari-led administration had also inaugurated brand new airport terminals in Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt.

The former APC Spokesperson made these claims at the second edition of PMB Administration Scorecard 2015-2023 series in Abuja, saying that it was an insult for the PDP to say the APC has nothing to campaign about for the 2023 elections.

He pointed out that the current administration had also completed housing projects in 35 states, constructed, or is constructing road projects in every state in the country.

“We have constructed, or are constructing, road projects in every State and we have the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme that has almost weaned us from dependence on imported rice and other crops,” he said.

“We met 15 standard rice mills and now we have over 50.

“We have our unprecedented National Social Investment Programme under which 9.8 million school children are fed one meal daily, under which 1 million youths have been empowered.

“Another 500,000 are undergoing training under the N-Power and 1,632,480 households have been enrolled in the Conditional Cash Transfer Programme.

“We are proud of the Integrated National Security and Waterways Protection Infrastructure (also known as Deep Blue Asset) aimed at managing, controlling and protecting Nigerian waterways towards the advancement of coastal prosperity.”