APC Committee: FG Still Not Cooperating with Us
Onyebuchi Ezigbo The All Progressives Congress (APC) has insisted that the President Goodluck Jonathan administration is not cooperating with the party’s transition committee.
The party described Peoples Democratic Party (PDP’s) spokesman, Olisah Metuh, as “a man with an incurable disdain for the truth.”
In a statement issued in Abuja yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said: “With all sense of responsibility, that as of today, May 14, 2015, just about two weeks to the May 29 handover date, no shred of information as to the status of governance from any ministry, department and agency (MDA) of government has been given to our transition committee.
‘’If that qualifies in Metuh’s lexicon as cooperation, then there is a problem somewhere. We dare Metuh or anyone for that matter, to controvert the fact that not a line of handover note has been handed over to our transition committee. Until then, Metuh has egg on his face.”
APC restated its earlier advice to Metuh to urgently undertake a crash course on how to be an opposition party spokesman so he won’t talk or write himself into avoidable trouble in the days ahead.
The party admonished the PDP spokesman to always crosscheck the information available to him in order to separate rumours from facts, saying had he done that, he would not have issued the statement in which he tried to cast aspersion on the APC by accusing it of ‘’fabricating lies’’ over the issue of the Jonathan administration’s non-cooperation with the APC’s transition committee.
‘’Metuh decided to put his foot in his mouth when he latched on to the statement made by our Transition Committee chairman, forgetting that in making his statement, the chairman was only acting the statesman that he is by not saying anything that will put the federal government in bad light.
‘’A discerning party spokesman, rather than a rabble-rousing one, would have understood the elder statesman’s stand for what it is instead of using it as a peg to issue a needless, hollow statement that puts his party and government in bad light. We had decided to allow sleeping dogs lie, but now that Metuh has stirred the hornet’s nest, it is time to put out the facts for Nigerians to judge.
‘’What happened was that, following the request by our transition committee to meet with them, they invited us to what was the first formal meeting between both transition committees. But the meeting was a mere photo-op, as it yielded nothing concrete as far as handover notes are concerned.