The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) for appropriating the Abuja – Kaduna Standard Gauge Rail Line Project which was conceptualised, awarded and constructed by previous PDP administrations.
The party, in a statement by its Chief Spokesman, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, on Wednesday said the Rail Project was conceptualised by the Olusegun Obasanjo Administration and successive PDP administrations of President Umaru Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan, commenced work and built the Project to 99% completion, saying that the only work done by Buhari on the project was the commissioning on Tuesday by Buhari.
The party said the usual rhetoric of the APC had always been that the 16 years of PDP’s rule were years of waste asking if the Railway Project was also a waste?
“The truth which history will bear out is that the PDP in its 16 years of rule successfully completed numerous projects that substantively changed the infrastructural landscape of Nigeria. Everyone of those 16 years were years of great productivity with remarkable landmark achievements. This is very much unlike the APC which has already wasted one full year without even scratching one square metre of ground anywhere in the country”, Adeyeye said.
The PDP Spokesman concluded that ‘if morning truly shows the day, then we can say that Nigeria is now really in the era of waste and stagnation’.
