Be more remorseful to Nigeians, NCFront group criticises APC

The National Consultative Front, which promotes the ‘Third Force Movement’ in Nigeria, has called on the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to show remorse to Nigerians, especially as the current economic hardship continues to bite hard.

Hamisu Turaki, the Acting Spokesperson for the group, criticized a recent statement made by the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Felix Morka.

The group said it believes that Morka’s statement is an admission of the failure of the “Renewed Hope Agenda”, which was being touted as a cure for the disastrous eight years of Muhammadu Buhari’s APC regime.

He said Buhari himself had apologized for running the country aground during a book launch in an attempt to improve his image, but the National Consultative Front believes that these apologies are belated and useless.

The group also pointed out that the president’s approval of N3 billion for the social register’s verification and the fraudulent transactions that were uncovered at the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation confirm that the APC is deeply involved in a web of corruption that calls for an immediate investigation and prosecution.

The statement partly read: “National Consultative Front is not unmindful of the fact that the leadership of the APC is understandably unashamed that its Bola Ahmed Tinubu regime, within few months of assuming office, has proven to Nigerians and the global community that corruption has been entrenched beyond redemption in Nigeria under the watch of the APC.

“However, we are not so astounded that the leadership of the APC is unremorseful about the expose of corruption in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management amongst other Federal Government institutions.

“For the avoidance of doubts, the stench of the mind-boggling thefts from the Social Investment and Poverty Alleviation Agency is a clear indication that strategic political appointees of the Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda as well as Ministers including Key Aides of President Tinubu are already on a drunken overdrive in the cesspool of corruption to which APC has reduced every stratum of governance and public spaces in Nigeria.

“In the desperation to divert attention from its monumental failure in governance and the management of the economy, the APC through Felix Morka sought to drag major opposition political parties into needless conversation as a smokescreen for the calamitous outing in the last 7 months of the Tinubu’s administration.

It lamented how the APC seeks to further “hoodwink Nigerians by diverting attention from its failure to provide competent and accountable leadership after eight years of failed government and with a renewed mandate secured through grand electoral heist during the February 25, 2023 Presidential polls”.

“Nigerians deserve an explanation and apologies from the APC for turning the country into a terrorized field, where insurgents, kidnappers and all forms of criminal elements operate ceaselessly in spite of the huge budgetary allocations to the security sectors by the APC government. The APC should be ashamed that the federal capital territory, Abuja of all places has now been turned into a den of kidnappers, who abduct citizens at will and demand ransom with impunity.

“We wonder what would happen in other parts of the country in the months to come if the APC-led government cannot secure the seat of power. We wonder if what occupying the seat of power in Abuja has been reduced to is only to preside over monumental corruption when residents cannot sleep in their homes with both eyes closed.”