Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, on Thursday, November 12, threw down the gauntlet, taking the All Progressives Congress, APC, to task for failing to fulfil its 2015 electoral campaign promises since the party assumed power.
Ekewermadu who stated this at the National Conference of the PDP which held at the Thisday Dome in Abuja, disclosed that the APC won by propaganda and unrealistic promises much more than they could deliver.
President Muhammadu Buhari, who won the 2015 Presidential mandate on the platform of the APC, was known to have remarkably made a lot of promises.
A breakdown showed the then presidential hopeful being specific on how some of these sectors would be fixed within time frame, while time line was not attached to others.
There was also the promise of stabilizing the Naira if elected. He had pledged to do that by ensuring that the country’s currency was equal to the US Dollar.
At a campaign rally in Kano and other places, Buhari promised to create three million jobs yearly to solve the problem of unemployment.
In addition, his then running mate, Yemi Osibanjo, at a campaign rally in Akure, pledged 20,000 jobs yearly totaling 720,000 and among many promises.
Blasting the Buhari led- APC, Ekeremadu insisted that none of the numerous promises had been fulfilled.
“Unfortunately, the chicken has come home to roost sooner than anticipated. No campaign promise, I repeat, no promise made by the present APC administration has been kept.
“They promised to scale up the exchange rate of our currency to a Naira to one US Dollar. Have they kept this promise? They promised to bring back the Chibok girls in three months. Have they brought back the Chibok Girls?
“They promised to pay N5, 000 to 25 million unemployed youths. Have they paid a Kobo to any youth?
“They promised free meals to our children in the schools. Have they given any? They recently promised to end the Boko Haram insurgency in December 2015. We earnestly hope and pray that this particular promise is kept in the overall interest of our nation,” he said.
These comments come just a day after APC Senators walked out of a plenary session at the National Assembly which Ekweremadu oversaw in the absence of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki.
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